Eppelsheim

Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim
Municipality
	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 (2023-12-31)
• Total	1,213
• 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.de

Eppelsheim is a village (Ortsgemeinde) in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Eppelsheim lies on a high plateau in the Rhenish Hesse wine region.

Politics

Municipal council

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

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

Museums

Deinotherium at the town hall

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

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

↑ Bevölkerungsstand 31. Dezember 2023, Landkreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden; Fortschreibung des Zensus 2011 (in German), Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz, 2024
↑ "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.
↑ 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

Municipality’s official webpage in English
The discovery of the Deinotherium of Eppelsheim Archived 2008-02-10 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

[1] Bevölkerungsstand 31. Dezember 2023, Landkreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden; Fortschreibung des Zensus 2011 (in German), Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz, 2024

[2] "LWL RLP - Kommunalwahlen: Ergebnisse der Ratswahlen: Wahlergebnisse 2014: Stadt- und Gemeinderatswahlen". www.wahlen.rlp.de.

[3] 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.

[4] WELT (18 October 2017). "Fund bei Eppelsheim: Zahn eines Menschenaffen ist fast zehn Millionen Jahre alt". Die Welt – via www.welt.de.

[5] Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Archaeology fossil teeth discovery in Germany could re-write human history - DW - 19.10.2017". DW.COM.

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