# Moritzheim

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**Moritzheim** is an *[Ortsgemeinde](/source/Ortsgemeinde_(Germany))* – a [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Germany) belonging to a *[Verbandsgemeinde](/source/Verbandsgemeinde)*, a kind of collective municipality – in the [Cochem-Zell](/source/Cochem-Zell) [district](/source/Districts_of_Germany) in [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate), [Germany](/source/Germany). It belongs to the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Zell](/source/Zell_(Verbandsgemeinde)), whose seat is in the municipality of [Zell an der Mosel](/source/Zell_(Mosel)).

## Geography

The municipality lies in the [Hunsrück](/source/Hunsr%C3%BCck) at an elevation of some 500 m above [sea level](/source/Sea_level). The river [Moselle](/source/Moselle_(river)) lies roughly 12 km away.

## History

After a great fire in [Senheim](/source/Senheim) on 13 August 1839, thirty families who had been left homeless founded the *Kolonie Hoch-Senheim* (*hoch* means “high” in [German](/source/German_language)). The new village was given a new name soon after building work was finished. It was named after the [Prussian](/source/Prussia) *Landrat* (roughly, “district chairman”), Moritz.

Soon thereafter came lean years, and between 1846 and 1852, 23 families from the municipality emigrated to the [United States](/source/United_States) for a better life, leaving only five people living in Moritzheim.

Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded [state](/source/States_of_Germany) of [Rhineland-Palatinate](/source/Rhineland-Palatinate). Under the *Verwaltungsvereinfachungsgesetz* (“Administration Simplification Law”) of 28 July 1970, with effect from 7 November 1970, the municipality was grouped into the [*Verbandsgemeinde* of Zell](/source/Zell_(Verbandsgemeinde)).

## Politics

### Municipal council

The council is made up of 6 council members, who were elected by [majority vote](/source/Plurality_voting_system) at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.[2]

### Mayor

Moritzheim's mayor is Adelbert Reis, and his deputies are Dieter Schug and Alfred Kaspari.[3]

### Coat of arms

The municipality's [arms](/source/Coat_of_arms) might be described thus: Per fess sable two lions rampant argent armed and langued gules and Or in base gules emerging from which four flames of the same.

## Economy and infrastructure

### Public institutions

- Volunteer [fire brigade](/source/Fire_brigade)

## References

1. [Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Cochem-Zell](https://www.wahlen.rlp.de/de/kw/wahlen/kd/gebiete/1350000000000.html), Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 9 August 2021.

1. [Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat](http://wahlen.rlp.de/kw/wahlen/2009/gemeinderatswahlen/ergebnisse/1350506400.html)

1. [Moritzheim’s council](http://www.zell-mosel.de/content/view/283/140/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719115723/http://www.zell-mosel.de/content/view/283/140/) 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

- [Hunsrückreise: Moritzheim](https://web.archive.org/web/20110719043331/http://www.hunsrueck-nahereise.de/vg-zell/moritzheim.html) (in German)

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