Esselborn

Esselborn
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Esselborn within Alzey-Worms district
Esselborn Esselborn
Coordinates: 49°42′55″N 08°07′07″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Jan Weindorf
Area
• Total	4.10 km2 (1.58 sq mi)
Elevation	229 m (751 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	399
• Density	97/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	55234
Dialling codes	06731
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.gemeinde-esselborn.de

Esselborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse.

History

In 763, Esselborn had its first documentary mention. Held at first by the Lords of Strahlenberg, Esselborn was then an Electoral Palatinate possession as of 1408.

Church in Esselborn, 13th century

Politics

Town council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

	Oberhellmann	Reßler	Total
2009	5	3	8 seats

In 2004 there was an election by majority vote.

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Argent two batons per saltire gules, the one in bend sinister surmounting the other, fastened thereto with a nail, and with a branch couped palewise in base dexter, in base a rose twig vert with one rose of the second barbed and seeded proper.

External links

• Esselborn in the collective municipality’s Web pages (in German)
• Esselborn hat jetzt seinen siebten Brunnen – Vermutlich bis 1902 wurde aus Vorgänger Wasser zum Brotbacken geschöpft / Zehn sollen es werden from the Rhein Main Presse of 28 July 2008 (in German)