Friedelsheim

Friedelsheim is an "Ortsgemeinde" – a municipality belonging to a "Verbandsgemeinde", a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Geography.
Location.
The winegrowing centre lies in the eastern Palatinate ("Vorderpfalz"). It belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Wachenheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
History.
On 24 June 770, Friedelsheim had its first documentary mention.
Politics.
Municipal council.
The council is made up of 16 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:
Coat of arms.
The German blazon reads: "Eine vor blauem Hintergrund abgebildete silberne Burg mit offenem Tor und drei Türmen mit spitzen roten Dächern, gekrönt von je einer goldenen Wetterfahne."
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure a castle argent with an open gate and three towers each with a pointed roof gules crowned by a weathervane Or.
The arms are based on an old municipal seal, first known to have been used in 1698. The arms were officially conferred on 17 September 1853.
Economy and infrastructure.
Transport.
The Autobahn A 650 to Ludwigshafen links Friedelsheim to the national highway network. Towards Bad Dürkheim runs "Bundesstraße" 37.
The "Rhein-Haardtbahn", a narrow-gauge railway running from Mannheim to Bad Dürkheim, also affords a link to the rail network.