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Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Mainz-Bingen
Association municipality :	Bodenheim
Height :	84 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.62 km 2
Residents:	5703 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	662 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	55299
Area code :	06135
License plate :	MZ , BIN
Community key :	07 3 39 039
Association administration address:	Am Dollesplatz 1 ; 55294 Bodenheim
Website :	www.nackenheim.de
Local Mayor :	René Adler (FWG)
Location of the local community Nackenheim in the Mainz-Bingen district

Aerial view of Nackenheim

Nackenheim is a local community and a wine-growing town in Rheinhessen in the Mainz-Bingen district and is about 10 kilometers south of Mainz . Nackenheim is the only local community in the Verbandsgemeinde Bodenheim , which is located directly on the left bank of the Rhine . According to state planning, Nackenheim is designated as a basic center.

geography

location

DLRG landing site on the island of Kisselwörth

Nackenheim is a municipality located between vineyards and the Rhine, whose vineyards were first mentioned more than 1,200 years ago. The islands of Kisselwörth (35 ha) and Sändchen separate Nackenheim from the main stream of the Rhine. The Mühlarm tributary is located between the inhabited area of Nackenheim and these two islands . The two inland islands are under nature protection and belong to the FFH area Rheinauen. In the past the area was used for agriculture, today there are orchards . In the course of straightening the Rhine , the islands of Kisselwörth and Sändchen were enlarged by embankments and power control panels.

Neighboring communities

Nackenheim borders the municipalities of Bodenheim , Nierstein and Lörzweiler in Rhineland-Palatinate and Trebur in Hesse on the other side of the Rhine.

history

timeline

Timetable
2200 BC Chr.	Neolithic village of the Rössen culture in the Fruchtgewann area of the Nackenheim district
1200 BC Chr.	Urnfield cemetery on the Oppenheimer Berg attests to Bronze Age settlement in the area
600 BC Chr.	In the older Iron Age there was a Hallstatt culture settlement on the bird kingdom
250 AD	Roman manors ( villae rusticae ) in the corridors of Rudelheck and Thierhäupter
580 AD	Franconian grave finds from these years at the Heidenpforte confirm the founding of the village in the lower valley of the Eichelbach
630 AD	The Franconian village is separated from the imperial estate through a royal donation and becomes the property of the diocese of Cologne
Early 8th century	The Archbishop of Cologne donates his Nackenheim property to the newly established St. Gereons Abbey
772 AD	First documented mention between October 771 and October 772 with a donation from Teudald and his wife Runtrud over four vineyards in Nackenheim to the Lorsch monastery , (document 1448).
1024 AD	Election of Emperor Konrad II on the king's chair
1100 AD	Sunsweiler and Albisheim are - later submerged - hamlets in the Nakheimer Mark .
1258 AD	"Nachenn" goes to the from Cologne St. Gereon pen Mainzer St. Stephen's pen over
14th to 16th century	Important priests emerged from the local knight family von Nackheim ( Godefried von Nacknheim , Vicar von St. Stephan, Herbord von Nackheim , Cantor of the Teutonic Order in Mainz)
1615	Nackenheim is subordinated to the Elector of Mainz
1714	In a contract between Kurmainz and Kurpfalz , the course of the Mainz state border south of Nackenheim is determined. There is a customs post in Nackenheim. (The customs house on Prof. Pierplatz stood until 1938)
1792/1793	During the Nackenheim Revolution, the population took the French civic oath
1816	Nackenheim comes to the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The twelve floodplains on the right bank of the Rhine are lost

The name Nackenheim

The origin of the name Nackenheim is unclear. According to one theory, the name is said to have been derived from a chief named Nacho, which means "home of Nacho". Another hypothesis says that the name is derived from the location of Nackenheim in the "neck of the mountain". Both theories are so far unconfirmed.

Population development

The development of the population of Nackenheim; the values from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

Population development of Nackenheim from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

year	Residents
1815	826
1835	1,580
1871	1,295
1905	1,669
1939	2,215
1950	2,627

year	Residents
1961	2,759
1970	3,218
1987	3,891
1997	4,928
2005	5,024
2017	5,760

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Nackenheim consists of 22 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	FDP	FWG	total
2019	3	9	2	8th	22 seats
2014	7th	9	1	5	22 seats
2009	8th	9	1	4th	22 seats
2004	8th	10	0	4th	22 seats

FWG = Free Voter Group Nackenheim e. V.

mayor

René Adler (FWG) is the local mayor of Nackenheim. In the runoff election on June 16, 2019, he was able to prevail against the previous incumbent Margit Grub (CDU) with a share of 56.0% of the vote.

The following people were local mayors from 1994:

Bardo Kraus (CDU), 1994-2009
Heinz Hassemer (CDU), 2009–2014
Margit Grub (CDU), 2014–2019
René Adler (FWG), since 2019

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided by black and red by a silver bar, above a silver imperial orb with a silver cross , below a six-spoke silver wheel."

In an expert opinion of May 25, 1984, Chief Archives Councilor Karl-Heinz Debus from the Landesarchiv Speyer stated the following:

“Above the town hall entrance of Nackenheim there is a coat of arms stone which differs from the present coat of arms in the following details: Instead of the cross, a hook with an acute angle adorns the imperial orb and the wheel has eight spokes. ... The keystone above the town hall entrance brings, certainly in an unconscious transformation, the always six-spoke Mainz wheel , because only this can be involved, with eight spokes. On the other hand, the interpretation of the orb was unclear. Demandt-Renkhoff (Hessisches Ortswappenbuch, 1956, p. 124 f) explain that the Mainz wheel originally supplanted seal representations with the stoning of St. Stephen - reference to the Mainz monastery as the patron saint of the Nackenheim Gereonskirche. Likewise, the place symbol attached to the stoning of Stephen, which initially resembled a sester, was increasingly transformed into an orb, which is why this form is now used in the local coat of arms. The colors black and red proposed by Demandt-Renkhoff, now also widespread, were retained, but for heraldic reasons and based on the keystone already mentioned several times, they were provided with a bar, the silver color of which in connection with the red of the lower half of the shield on the ore pin Mainz refers. The coat of arms is historically well founded and heraldically sound; its approval is recommended. "

Parish partnership

The French partner municipality is Pommard , Département Côte-d'Or , Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comté ; it is regularly represented with a wine stand at the annual wine festival.

Culture and sights

The town hall, a late baroque hipped roof building

Buildings

town hall

The town hall of Nackenheim dates from 1751. The late baroque half- hipped roof building is one of the most beautiful half-timbered houses in Rheinhessen . On the facade there is a bust of the writer Carl Zuckmayer (1896–1977) from Nackenheim .

Parish Church of St. Gereon

The Catholic parish church of St. Gereon characterizes the townscape; it was built from 1716 to 1731 and expanded to the west in 1901. The bell tower is from 1911. Inside, the high altar from the Mainz Cathedral from 1697, the figures carved by Nikolaus Binterim from 1770, the organ case from 1739 and the only secco wall paintings from the 18th century in the diocese of Mainz are worth mentioning.

Other structures

Zehnthof of the St. Stephansstift in Mainz

The Zehnthof of the St. Stephansstift in Mainz was built around 1710. The stately baroque half-hipped roof building in Langgasse 3 was partly built with half-timbering and is a defining feature of the street.

Right next to it is the courtyard of the Mainz Reichklarakloster, a baroque half-timbered house that also dates from the early 18th century.

The mountain chapel was built around 1616 south of the village as a path chapel in the middle of the vineyards, but was completely redesigned in the second half of the 19th century.

Regular events

Mardi Gras sessions of the Carneval Association Duck Brothers and the Catholic Youth Nackenheim. On Shrove Tuesday parade through the local streets
Procession with St. John's bonfire on the Rhine in honor of Johannes Nepomuk
Rothenberglauf of TuS 06 Nackenheim in April (three weeks before the Gutenberg Marathon in Mainz)
Hiking day of TuS 06 Nackenheim in April
Parish festival on Corpus Christi
Open day of the volunteer fire brigade on the last weekend in June
Island festival of the DLRG Ortsgruppe-Nackenheim e. V. on the penultimate weekend in July
Wine festival on the last weekend of July
Parish fair on the fourth Sunday in September
Open-air theater performances by the Carl Zuckmayer Society in summer
Backfischfest of the fishing club at the idyllic fishing pond
Foundation festival of TuS 06 Nackenheim on the first Sunday of Advent
Advent market on the second weekend of Advent

Gunderloch winery

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

The Gunderloch winery is a member of the Association of German Predicate and Quality Wineries e. V. (VDP).

The Nackenheim high school

education

Carl Zuckmayer Elementary School
Janusz Korczak Regional School (until 2008)
Gymnasium Nackenheim (since 2008)

The Nackenheim train station on the Mainz – Mannheim line

traffic

14 km south of Mainz , the federal highway 9 leads in four lanes to the A 60 (junction Mainz-Laubenheim ); the A 60 is part of the Mainz motorway ring
Nackenheim is on the Mainz – Mannheim railway line . At Nackenheim station every half hour, in off-peak hours every hour, the S-Bahn line S 6 of the S-Bahn RheinNeckar ; they drive south to Worms and Mannheim and north to Mainz .
A landing stage on the banks of the Rhine enables passenger ships of all sizes to land .
Cycle paths connect Nackenheim with Bodenheim, Mainz, Nierstein and Lörzweiler. The international Rhine Cycle Route (Andermatt - Rotterdam) runs through the town.

The cheerful vineyard in Nackenheim

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Memory of Carl Zuckmayer

Carl Zuckmayer was born here in 1896. In his play The Merry Vineyard , he set a permanent monument to his homeland. A bust at the entrance of the local administration still reminds of him today.
Eduard Zuckmayer (1890–1972), music teacher, composer and pianist
Matthias Pier (1882–1965), chemist primarily in the fields of carbohydrate hydrogenation
Regine Usinger (* 1958), later Usinger-Frank, German Wine Queen 1980/1981
Ansbert Herdt (* 1966), founder of Herdt-Verlag

Personalities who have worked locally

Christine Darmstadt was a very well known midwife during the Second World War and well into the 1950s. Your house is at the foot of Christine-Darmstadt-Strasse, which leads to the “Am Sprunk” development area. She was made an honorary citizen of Nackenheim in the 1960s .
Carl Zuckmayer (1864–1947), entrepreneur
Hanna-Renate Laurien (* 1928; † 2010), German politician (CDU), former minister of culture for the state of Rhineland-Palatinate and former president of the Berlin House of Representatives , lived in Nackenheim in the 1970s.
Marianne Grosse (* 1962), German politician (SPD), head of the building, monument preservation and culture department of the state capital Mainz, lives in Nackenheim.
Salvatore Barbaro (* 1974), German politician (SPD), State Secretary for Finance for the State of Rhineland-Palatinate, lives in Nackenheim.