title: Siefersheim
text: # Siefersheim
  
  Siefersheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Location
  
  The municipality lies at Rhenish Hesse’s western edge and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wöllstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
  
  ### Neighbouring municipalities
  
  Siefersheim’s neighbours are Wonsheim, Wöllstein, Eckelsheim, Gumbsheim and Neu-Bamberg.
  
  ## Politics
  
  ### Municipal council
  
  The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
  
  ### Mayor
  
  The current mayor is Annerose Kinder.
  
  ### Coat of arms
  
  The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per pale argent a tower gules, in base a bunch of grapes vert, and sable a lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules.
  
  ## Economy and infrastructure
  
  Siefersheim is characterized by Rhenish-Hessian winegrowing and can boast of having a VDP winery in the Weingut Wagner-Stempel, as well as of having a DLG-recommended winery in the Weingut "Alte Schmiede".
  
  ### Education
  
  * Grundschule Siefersheim (primary school)
  