On 13 March 2016, Stephanie Eßwein was elected as the new mayor with a majority of 77.57% of the votes, thus replacing Peter Seyfried, who served for about 30 years as mayor. The town council was last elected on 26 May 2019 and consists of the following parties: Independent voters list (35.8%, 7 seats), Grüne (23.9%, 4 seats), SPD (23.0%, 4 seats) and CDU (17.3%, 3 seats).
