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
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.
[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.]
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.[C. Van De Kieft and J. F. Niermeyer, eds. (1967), Elenchus fontium historiae urbanae (Leiden: E. J. Brill), pp. 43–44.]
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.[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.]
Politics
Town council
The council is made up of 17 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
(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.
[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]
Town partnerships
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 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.
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