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

In 763, Esselborn had its first documentary mention. Held at first by the Lords of Strahlenberg, Esselborn was then an Electoral Palatinate possession as of 1408.

Town council

The council is made up of 8 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:
Oberhellmann Reßler Total
2009 5 3 8 seats


In 2004 there was an election by majority vote
Plurality voting system
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Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms
Coat of arms
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might be described thus: Argent two batons per saltire gules, the one in bend sinister surmounting the other, fastened thereto with a nail, and with a branch couped palewise in base dexter, in base a rose twig vert with one rose of the second barbed and seeded proper.

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