Vollmersweiler

{{Infobox German location

|image_coa = Wappen Vollmersweiler.svg

|coordinates = {{coord|49|03|53|N|08|04|37|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|image_plan = Vollmersweiler in GER.svg

| image_photo = Vollmersweiler-18-Hauptstr 50+48-gje.jpg

|state = Rheinland-Pfalz

|district = Germersheim

|Verbandsgemeinde = Kandel

|elevation = 142

|area = 2.18

|postal_code = 76744

|area_code = 06340

|licence = GER

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 07 3 34 031

|website = [https://www.vg-kandel.de/vg_kandel/Verbandsgemeinde/Vollmersweiler/ www.vg-kandel.de]

|mayor = Roland Kelemen[https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/3340000000000.html Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Germersheim], Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.

|leader_term = 2019–24

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Vollmersweiler is a municipality in the district of Germersheim, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Location

The village is located in the southern Palatinate between Karlsruhe and Landau. Since 1972 the community has belonged to the Kandel municipal association, whose administrative headquarters is in the town of Kandel.

History

Vollmersweiler once belonged to the lords of Guttenberg castle. For a time in the 18th century it shared a Schultheiß with the town of Niederotterbach on the west.

Religion

In 2007, 50% of the population was Protestant and 24.8% Catholic. The remainder belonged to a different religion or none.[http://www.kommwis.de/uploads/media/Online-Gemeindestatistik_02.htm KommWis, Stand: 30.11.2007] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929133331/http://www.kommwis.de/uploads/media/Online-Gemeindestatistik_02.htm |date=2007-09-29 }}

Government

The council consists of seven council members, including the mayor. The mayor, Roland Kelemen, was elected in 9th June 2024.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: In red a slanting silver plowblade.

It was approved in 1931 by the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior and goes back to a common judicial seal of and Niederotterbach from the year 1581.Karl Heinz Debus: Das große Wappenbuch der Pfalz. Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1988, {{ISBN|3-9801574-2-3}}

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