Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Eppelsheim within Alzey-Worms district  | |
  Eppelsheim  Eppelsheim | |
| Coordinates: 49°42′N 8°9′E / 49.700°N 8.150°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Alzey-Worms |
| Municipal assoc. | Alzey-Land |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ute Klenk-Kaufmann |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.57 km2 (2.15 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 179 m (587 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[1] | |
| • Total | 1,207 |
| • Density | 220/km2 (560/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC 01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC 02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55234 |
| Dialling codes | 06735 |
| Vehicle registration | AZ |
| Website | www |
Eppelsheim is a village (Ortsgemeinde) in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography
[change | change source]Eppelsheim lies on a high plateau in the Rhenish Hesse wine region.
Politics
[change | change source]Municipal council
[change | change source]The village has a council that governs it. The council has 16 members. These members are elected by the people of the village. In the 2014 election, 9 members of the FWG and 7 of the SPD were elected.[2]
The honorary mayor is Ute Klenk-Kaufmann.
Coat of arms
[change | change source]The village’s arms has two halves. They are divided vertically. On the left is a crowned lion. It is standing on its hind legs and facing left. The right half has a green branch with two green apples.
Culture
[change | change source]Museums
[change | change source]Deinotherium at the town hall
[change | change source]The Dinotherium-Museum in Eppelsheim holds fossil remains of mammals from deposits about ten million years old from the prehistoric Rhine near Eppelsheim. These deposits are known as the Deinotherium Sands, because they often contain teeth and bones from the extinct proboscid deinotherium.
Paleontological discoveries
[change | change source]Besides the dinotherium fossils, the femur of a Paidopithex rhenanus was found in the area in the 19th century. This was a now-extinct catarrhine primate.[3]
In 2017, researchers reported finding teeth of an ape dating to about 9.7 million years ago.[4] The teeth seem to belong to a kind of ape similar to Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), but that animal first appeared in Africa more than 4 million years later.[5]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ↑ "LWL RLP - Kommunalwahlen: Ergebnisse der Ratswahlen: Wahlergebnisse 2014: Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen". www.wahlen.rlp.de.
- ↑ Köhler, Meike; Alba, David M.; Solà, Salvador Moyà; MacLatchy, Laura (1 December 2002). "Taxonomic affinities of the Eppelsheim femur". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 119 (4): 297–304. doi:10.1002/ajpa.10140. PMID 12448015 – via PubMed.
- ↑ WELT (18 October 2017). "Fund bei Eppelsheim: Zahn eines Menschenaffen ist fast zehn Millionen Jahre alt". Die Welt – via www.welt.de.
- ↑ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Archaeology fossil teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history - DW - 19.10.2017". DW.COM.
Other websites
[change | change source]- Municipality’s official webpage in English
- The discovery of the Deinotherium of Eppelsheim Archived 2012-12-30 at Archive.today (in German)