Offstein
Sign in to savethumb|Former Offstein railway station with disused tracks Offstein () is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Key facts
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen Offstein.png
- German location.image_plan
- Offstein in AZ.svg
- German location.state
- Rheinland-Pfalz
- German location.district
- Alzey-Worms
- German location.Verbandsgemeinde
- Monsheim
- German location.elevation
- 118
- German location.area
- 5.64
- German location.postal_code
- 67591
- German location.area_code
- 06243
- German location.licence
- AZ
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 07 3 31 054
- German location.website
- www.offstein.de
- German location.mayor
- Andreas Böll
- German location.leader_term
- 2019–24
- German location.party
- SPD
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- Geography
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- Economy and infrastructure
- Famous people
- Sons and daughters of the town
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thumb|Former Offstein railway station with disused tracks Offstein () is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
== Geography == The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Monsheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Geographically speaking, Offstein is located in the western area of the Rhine Rift Valley. The Eisbach, a small tributary situated west of the Rhine, runs through the southern part of the municipality. In terms of the type of settlement, Offstein is a clustered village. The lee of the surrounding low mountain ranges encourages its mild and arid climate. The fertile loess layers in this region render possible a productive agrarian economy.