Flomborn
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Flomborn 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
Alzey-Worms
Alzey-Worms is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the district Groß-Gerau , the city of Worms and the districts of Bad Dürkheim, Donnersbergkreis, Bad Kreuznach and Mainz-Bingen.- History :...

 district in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
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, Germany
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Location

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse, in the Rheinhessisches Hügelland (Rhenish-Hessian Uplands), and in the Wormsgau. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land
Alzey-Land
Alzey-Land is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Alzey-Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located around the town Alzey, which is the seat of Alzey-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde....

, whose seat is in Alzey
Alzey
Alzey is a Verband-free town – one belonging to no Verbandsgemeinde – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the fourth-largest town in Rhenish Hesse, after Mainz, Worms, and Bingen....

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Neighbouring municipalities

Flomborn’s neighbours are Ober-Flörsheim
Ober-Flörsheim
Ober-Flörsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Location :...

, Dintesheim
Dintesheim
Dintesheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Location :...

 and Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim
Eppelsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.- Municipal council :...

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History

Flomborn has had many names over the ages, among which are Flamburn (1196), Blanbrunnen (1283), Flomburna (1324), Flonborne (1336), Flanborn (1362), Flamborn (1406), Flanbronnen (1424), Floborn (1509) and Flonborn (1787).

In its earliest days, the place belonged to the Bishopric of Mainz
Archbishopric of Mainz
The Archbishopric of Mainz or Electorate of Mainz was an influential ecclesiastic and secular prince-bishopric in the Holy Roman Empire between 780–82 and 1802. In the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy, the Archbishop of Mainz was the primas Germaniae, the substitute of the Pope north of the Alps...

, with several churches, monasteries and noblemen holding estates there. Of the last, one noble family even bore the village’s name. One Rudewin von Flamburn crops up in the historical record as early as 1208, his name appearing in a document. The name Bruno von Flamburn was borne by one of the Ganerben – the joint rulers of the area – who granted the Marienborn Monastery at Weidas near Dautenheim the church rights at Gau-Heppenheim, and another Rudewin von Flamburn was named in 1295 as the arbiter of the Offenheim church rights for the Winter von Alzey family. A Berthold von Flamburn and his wife Christine were enfeoffed by the Archbishop Baldwin of Luxembourg  of Trier
Trier
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, who then was the administrator of the Archiepiscopal Foundation of Mainz, with their estate, house and garden in the village of Flamborn in 1335 for 100 pounds in Hellers
Heller (money)
The Heller or Häller was originally a German coin valued at half a pfennig and named after the city of Hall am Kocher...

 for a castle fief in Biebelnheim. It is likely that this old family also held the Vogt
Vogt
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in the village as a fief from the Bishopric of Worms. A Berthold von Flamburn and a Philipp von Gauwer held the office of Schultheiß
Schultheiß
In medieval Germany, the Schultheiß was the head of a municipality , a Vogt or an executive official of the ruler.As official it was...

, with the right to name a marksman, as a fief from the Bishopric of Worms, which Berthold’s son, Siegfried, and Gauwer had already received by 1406. In the same century, this fief passed to the family von Rodenstein and in 1483, Hans von Rodenstein was enfeoffed with the village of Flamborn, the estate and other holdings formerly held by Bishop Johann of Worms.

As early as 1378 a man named Rucker from Eppelsheim received ten Malter (roughly 1 280 L) of woodland corn from Count Palatine Ruprecht the Elder as a fief. Furthermore, in a document from 1424, Count Palatine Ludwig explicitly calls Flomborn “our” village. In the 16th century, the whole village was in Electoral Palatinate’s ownership. It belonged to the Oberamt of Alzey until the French
France
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 occupation in the late 18th century.

Municipal council

The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation
Proportional representation
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 at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman, with seats apportioned thus:

Für Flomborn: 10 seats
Willig: 6 seats

Both these factions are free voter
Free Voters
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 groups.

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms
Coat of arms
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 might be described thus: Per fess wavy vert a fish argent and argent a twig fesswise of the first lopped in dexter and couped in sinister with three leaves, the dexter to chief dexter, the sinister to chief sinister, and the middle to base.

The municipality’s own webpage, however, shows a slightly different coat of arms, with the fish’s fins in the tincture
Tincture (heraldry)
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 Or (gold).

Bronze pig

This monument was erected to the village’s leanest pig.

Flomborners deemed the fees on livestock for slaughter raised by the Occupiers after the Second World War much too high. These fees were assessed by the stock’s living weight. When the swine were gathered for weighing, the villagers led the same pig each time to the scale, to the point at which the pig was more or less performing the procedure by itself. This led to the fee coming out rather lower than it would otherwise have been, for this pig was the leanest, lightest one in the whole village. Those doing the weighing supposedly noticed nothing amiss and the villagers were so cheered that they later decided to put up a monument to this pig.

A well known song in the village, sung at Carnival
Carnival
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 (locally known as Fastnachtzeit), tells of this story:
German English translation

Und will mal einer schlachten, da gibt es ein groß´ Malör,

wo nehm ich nur ein Schweinchen her,

meins ist doch viel zu schwer.

Und heimlich borgt sich jeder dieselbe mag're Sau,

die rennt schon ganz allein zur Waag' und macht auch kein Radau.

And should one wish to slaughter, therein lies great misfortune,

Where I only take a little pig,

Mine is just much too heavy.

And secretly each one borrows the same lean sow,

That already runs alone to the scale and also makes no row.

Archaeology

Flomborn is eponymous for a ceramic and cultural stage in the Early New Stone Age, part of the Linear Pottery culture
Linear Pottery culture
The Linear Pottery culture is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic, flourishing ca. 5500–4500 BC.It is abbreviated as LBK , is also known as the Linear Band Ware, Linear Ware, Linear Ceramics or Incised Ware culture, and falls within the Danubian I culture of V...

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TuS Flomborn

The Turn- und Sportverein 1897 e.V. Flomborn (gymnastic and sport club) is the locally resident sport and football club. The founding meeting, with 58 founding members, took place on 28 July 1897.

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