Pleitersheim

Pleitersheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bad Kreuznach, whose seat is in the like-named town, although this lies outside the Verbandsgemeinde. Pleitersheim is a winegrowing village.GeographyLocationPleitersheim lies in the heart of Rhenish Hesse some 7 km east of downtown Bad Kreuznach on ground that slopes gently southeastwards to the Karlebach, a left-bank tributary to the Appelbach. The outlying countryside is barely wooded at all and is grouped with the Wöllsteiner Hügelland (“hill land”), which hosts intensive agricultural use. Pleitersheim borders on two neighbouring districts, Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms.Neighbouring municipalitiesClockwise from the north, Pleitersheim’s neighbours are Pfaffen-Schwabenheim (likewise in the Bad Kreuznach district), Badenheim (in the Mainz-Bingen district), Wöllstein (in the Alzey-Worms district) and Volxheim (also in the Bad Kreuznach district). Although the town and district seat of Bad Kreuznach lies right nearby, Pleitersheim does not border directly on it.