page_title: Armsheim
section_title: Sons and daughters of the town
hierarchical_section_title: Armsheim / Sons and daughters of the town
context_page_description: Armsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Armsheim lies in the Rhenish-Hessian Hills, has roughly 2,650 inhabitants and is the third biggest municipality within the Verbandsgemeinde of Wörrstadt, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. The current Armsheim was formed out of two formerly autonomous centres in 1969, named Armsheim and Schimsheim.
context_section_description: Johannes Schnitzer from Armsheim, cartographer of Ptolemy’s Geography
caption: Christian and Jewish scholars in a dispute (woodcut 1483); Johannes Schnitzer
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