Dienheim

Dienheim
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Dienheim within Mainz-Bingen district
Dienheim Show map of Germany Dienheim Show map of Rhineland-Palatinate
Coordinates: 49°50′25″N 8°21′2″E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Rhein-Selz
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Barbara Krenzer[1]
Area
• Total	9.90 km^2 (3.82 sq mi)
Highest elevation	120 m (390 ft)
Lowest elevation	90 m (300 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)[2]
• Total	2,227
• Density	220/km^2 (580/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	55276
Dialling codes	06133
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.dienheim.de

Dienheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

Location

Dienheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in Rhenish Hesse. The winemaking centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz, whose seat is in Oppenheim.

History

In the 8th century, Dienheim had its first documentary mention. The village passed in Charlemagne’s time to the Fulda Abbey. Later it ended up as an Imperial pledge in Electoral Palatinate’s ownership.^[3]

Dienheim is mentioned in the Wormser wall-building ordinance from around 900 as one of the places that shared responsibility for maintaining the city wall of Worms.^[4]

From the early 13th century, the Barons of Dienheim are witnessed, later, from the 16th to 18th century, being assigned to the Rhenish Knightly District’s (Rheinischer Ritterkreis) canton of Oberrheinstrom.^[5]

Politics

Town council

The council is made up of 17 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:

	SPD	CDU	FWG	Total
2004	5	4	7	16 seats

(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)

Coat of arms

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per pale sable and argent a lion rampant Or armed gules and a cross of the first.^[6]

Town partnerships

• Sours, Eure-et-Loir, France since 1977

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Highways

The municipality lies on Bundesstraße 9 linking Mainz with Worms. Since December 2007, the B 9, which had until then run through the built-up area, has run instead along a bypass alongside the railway line.

The Autobahnen A 60 and A 63 can each be reached in roughly 20 minutes.

Local public transport

Once the Mainz-Ludwigshafen railway line is integrated into the RheinNeckar S-Bahn in 2015, there will be a stop somewhere near the sporting ground.

References

1. Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Mainz-Bingen, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 4 August 2021.
2. "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
3. Gerhard Köbler, Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder: Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 3., verbesserte, um ein Register erweiterte Auflage, C. H. Beck, München 1990, Dienheim (Reichsdorf) p. 110.
4. C. Van De Kieft and J. F. Niermeyer, eds. (1967), Elenchus fontium historiae urbanae (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. 43–44.
5. Gerhard Köbler, Historisches Lexikon der deutschen Länder: Die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart, 3., verbesserte, um ein Register erweiterte Auflage, C. H. Beck, München 1990, Dienheim (Freiherren, Reichsritter) p. 110.
6. The tinctures named here are the ones in the German blazon; the Or (gold) and gules (red) are not rendered in the image of the arms used in this article

External links

• Municipality’s official webpage (in German)