Framersheim
# Framersheim

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

## Geography

### Location

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

### Neighbouring municipalities

Framersheim's neighbours are Alzey-Schafhausen, Dittelsheim-Heßloch, Gau-Heppenheim and Gau-Odernheim.

## History

In 775, Framersheim had its first documentary mention when a document from Lorsch Abbey mentioned a vineyard in Framersheim.

## Politics

### Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 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:

| | SPD | CDU | FWG | Zink | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2009 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 16 seats |

### Mayors

* (1945–1946) Johann Beckenbach
* (1989–2004) Frank Zink
* (2004–2019) Ulrich Armbrüster
* (2019–today) Felix Schmidt

### Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Sable a kettle-hat argent pierced each side with a cord gules, itself nowed at each end and looped once in base.

The “kettle-hat” (Kesselhut in German) apparently was once typical. It appeared in the village seal as early as 1459. It could be a canting charge for the family Kessler von Sarmsheim who held the local castle in the Middle Ages.

## Economy and infrastructure

With local winemaking businesses, business is done by so-called self-marketers, who mostly market their own wares directly to end users.

