Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim is a village (Ortsgemeinde) in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
 Coat of arms | |
Location of Eppelsheim within Alzey-Worms district  | |
| Coordinates: 49°42′N 8°9′E / 49.700°N 8.150°ECoordinates: 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 (2006-12-31) | |
| • Total | 1,269 |
| • Density | 227.83/km2 (590.1/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55234 |
| Vehicle registration | AZ |
| Website | www |
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.[1]
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.[2]
In 2017, researchers reported finding teeth of an ape dating to about 9.7 million years ago.[3] 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.[4]
References
- ↑ "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 – via PubMed.
- ↑ WELT (18 October 2017). Fund bei Eppelsheim: Zahn eines Menschenaffen ist fast zehn Millionen Jahre alt. https://www.welt.de/wissenschaft/article169786856/Dieser-Menschenaffen-Zahn-stellt-Archaeologen-vor-ein-Raetsel.html.
- ↑ 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 2012-12-30 at Archive.today (in German)