Hochborn | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Hochborn within Alzey-Worms district  | |
  Hochborn  Hochborn | |
| Coordinates: 49°43′26″N 8°12′03″E / 49.72389°N 8.20083°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Alzey-Worms |
| Municipal assoc. | Wonnegau |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Ute Balz[1] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 3.56 km2 (1.37 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 290 m (950 ft) |
| Population (2022-12-31)[2] | |
| • Total | 417 |
| • Density | 120/km2 (300/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55234 |
| Dialling codes | 06735 |
| Vehicle registration | AZ |
| Website | www.hochborn.de |
Hochborn (until 1971: Blödesheim) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
This Ortsgemeinde earned a Germany-wide media presence in early 2001 when a television spot from the 1970s made by the then Südwestfunk was broadcast by Stefan Raab on his show TV total; it was about the place called Blödesheim. Stefan Raab then visited Hochborn during Carnival (locally known as Fastnachtszeit) and for a few weeks thereafter campaigned for a return to the name Blödesheim.[3]
Blödes Heim in German means "dimwitted home".
- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
- ^ Hysterie um Raabs „totalen TV-Blödsinn“ gut verkraftet – Rhein Main Presse municipal portrait from Friday, 11 March 2005, page 14