Mommenheim (Rheinhessen)

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Rhine-Selz
Height :	134 m above sea level NHN
Area :	7.78 km 2
Residents:	3129 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	402 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55278
Area code :	06138
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 037
Association administration address:	Sant 'Ambrogio-Ring 33 ; 55276 Oppenheim
Local Mayor :	Hans-Peter Broock ( CDU )
Location of the local community of Mommenheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Baroque parallel courtyard, 18th century

Baroque half-timbered house, built in 1683

Mommenheim is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Rhein-Selz community , which has its administrative headquarters in the city of Oppenheim .

Geographical location

The wine village is in Rheinhessen , on Landesstraße 425, 13 kilometers as the crow flies south of the old town of Mainz . The Rhine flows about three kilometers east of Mommenheim. In the north of the community is the Kinsbach, also known as the Zornheimer Graben , which flows into the Flügelsbach near Mommenheim .

**Neighboring places**
	Harxheim
Anger home		Loerzweiler
	Selzen	Schwabsburg

history

Mommenheim appears for the first time in a document in 766 and more often during the 8th century as donations to Lorsch Abbey . The year 764, which appears in the literature, is incorrect, as is a deed of donation from 765. There, St. Nazarius and Abbot Gundeland von Lorsch mentioned. However, both were not in Lorsch this year.

In the 13th century Mommenheim was obliged to take part in the maintenance of the walls of the city of Mainz and was allowed to seek protection for the city in the event of war. The village, which was virtually free for a long time, first came under French rule between 1681 and 1697 and finally at the end of the 18th century.

After Napoleonic rule in Europe ended, Mommenheim became part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816 , to which it belonged until 1946. Industrialization also took place at this time, with the establishment of a telephone connection in 1890 and the connection to the railway network in 1896, which also affected Mommenheim. Since 1946 the community has belonged to the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

Place name

According to Karl Johann Brilmayer , there was already a name for the Mommenheim in Wormsgau for 764: Momenheim (764). Other names over the following centuries were Mumenheim (765), Mominheim (766), Mumonheimo (771), Muomomheim (812), Monunnheim (867), Muminheim (1091), Mummenheim (1145), Momenheim (1485) and Mommernheim (1519 ).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Mommenheim consists of 20 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice	SPD	CDU	FWG	total
2019	8th	12	-	20 seats
2014	6th	11	3	20 seats
2009	4th	9	7th	20 seats

FWG = Free Voting Group Mommenheim

mayor

Hans-Peter Broock (CDU) has been the local mayor of Mommenheim since 2009. In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was confirmed in his office with 74.07% of the votes.

Community partnerships

The partner municipality is the French municipality of Neuilly-lès-Dijon .

coat of arms

	Blazon : " On the red field on the right a wolf tang and on the left on the blue field the old Mainz wheel ."
	Foundation of the coat of arms: Mommenheim had a wolf tang in the seal as early as the 17th century. On June 28, 1972, the municipality received authorization from the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Interior to add the “Mainz Wheel”.

In the meantime, there are findings about the Hohenfelser wheel in the Mommenheim coat of arms that contradict the previously suspected connection to the Mainz wheel. The thesis that the Bolander wheel and subsequently also the Hohenfelser wheel can be derived from the Mainz wheel has been established since the middle of the 19th century. Recently, however, it has been proven that the Bolander wheel is older than the Mainz wheel, because the eight-spoke Bolander wheel can be identified for the first time in 1214 (LASP, F7 / 37.2, Gatterer apparatus ), while the Mainz wheel was first identified in 1238 under Archbishop Siegfried III. von Eppstein , as a double wheel on a coin. The wheel does not appear in the official seal of the Bishop of Mainz at this time! The Hohenfelser Wheel, which was integrated into the Mommenheim coat of arms, has its own Bolandian origin and, according to current knowledge, cannot be derived from the Mainz Wheel.

Regular events

On the third weekend in September the Kerb is regularly celebrated in Mommenheim , organized by the Kerbeverein. Two weeks in advance there is always the summer solstice fire of the MKV (Carnival Association) on the festival meadow. Every leap year the MKV organizes a New Year's Eve ball.

The association Lautslochtrappers eV has been organizing a two-day open air every year on the 2nd weekend in August since 1980.

The Mommenheim volunteer fire brigade organizes the popular spring fire every weekend after Easter.

The fire brigade festival also takes place every year shortly after the summer holidays.

Since 1981 there has been an open air rock festival lasting several days every summer, organized by the Lautslochtrappers in Mommenheimer.

The theater group of the GV Liederkranz 1914/50 has been offering a play every March / April since 1988.

The local SPD has been organizing a Christmas market on the village square since 1991.

The men's choir MGV 1862 Mommenheim e. V. gives a Christmas concert in the Catholic Church every year during Advent.

traffic

The municipality is cut to the west by state road 425. It is 6 km south to the B 420 . The federal highway 63 can be reached by car in about 10 minutes.

District road 38 crosses Mommenheim in the direction of Schwabsburg, district road 34 in the direction of Lörzweiler and Zornheim.

Mommenheim is located in the area of the Rhein-Nahe local transport network . The nearest train stations are about 7 km away from Mommenheim: Nackenheim and Nierstein on the Mainz – Ludwigshafen line and Nieder Olm on the Mainz – Alzey line . The Regio-Line 660 of the Rhein-Nahe bus service offers twice an hour on weekdays, hourly connections to Mainz Hbf on weekends and hourly on weekdays and every two hours on weekends to Alzey train station . It thus offers a replacement for the Bodenheim – Alzey railway line, which was closed in 1985, and its Mommenheim (Rhine) station .

Personalities

Jakob Schlenger (1831–1917), Member of the 2nd Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
Uwe Haselsteiner (* 1961), German singer, songwriter, keyboard player and producer, born in Mommenheim
Nina Klinkel (* 1983), politician (SPD), 2009–2015 parliamentary group leader in the Mommenheim municipal council and since 2016 member of the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament .

literature

Literature about Mommenheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate state bibliography

Web links

Commons : Mommenheim - Collection of Images

Website of the local community Mommenheim
Stefan Grathoff: Mommenheim - how the village got its name. In: regionalgeschichte.net . June 9, 2016 .; accessed on May 8, 2018
Entry on regionalgeschichte.net

Individual evidence

↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).

↑ Stefan Grathoff: Mommenheim - how the village got its name. In: regionalgeschichte.net . June 9, 2016, accessed May 8, 2018 . Information from Stefan Weinfurter
↑ Historical information on the website of the local community Mommenheim
^ Karl Johann Brilmayer: Rheinhessen in the past and present. Giessen 1905.
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Mommenheim. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
^ Message on the renewed candidacy on the CDU Mommenheim website
^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Rhein-Selz, Verbandsgemeinde, twelfth line of results. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
↑ A little Mommenheim history and stories… In: mommenheim-online.de. Archived from the original on November 4, 2004 ; accessed on May 8, 2018 .

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-RP-1] State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).