Mörstadt

Mörstadt is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and is a winegrowing centre. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Monsheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.PoliticsTown councilThe council is made up of 12 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:Mayors Gerd Ermarth - FWG (1979 - 1999) Horst Wendel - SPD (1999–present)Coat of armsThe municipality’s arms might be described thus: Azure in chief two mullets Or, in base a daisy argent seeded of the second.Culture and sightseeingBuildings Village church from 1670 with a Stumm organTheatre Since 2005, Mörstadt has had at its disposal a lakeside stage on the Woog (a local word for “pond”).Famous people Amalie Haizinger, actress was born here in 1800