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20-615: The Municipality of Budenheim is the only Verbandsgemeinde -free municipality in Mainz-Bingen. The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse , 9 km west of Rhineland-Palatinate's capital Mainz , and is bordered by the north-flowing Rhine and the Lennebergwald (forest) on the residential community's south and west. Budenheim's greatest elevation is the Lenneberg at 176.8 m, which is in

40-642: A charge for the municipality's arms. The arms are based on a 16th-century village seal, and the tinctures are those from the arms borne by Electoral Mainz . These were chosen as no traditional tinctures were known. In 1911, the most important and finest specimen of a rhinoceros , some 20 million years old from the Miocene , was unearthed in Budenheim. The fossil is displayed at the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt . It

60-457: A flagpole argent bendwise flying from which the banner of Saint Pancras, argent a cross gules, standing on his foot sinister a shield argent charged with a cross gules. Heraldry of the World shows a different coat of arms for Budenheim, with the same charges but in different tinctures . The shield at Saint Pancras's foot, for instance, is Or (gold), including the cross with which it is charged, and

80-459: A large number of specialities, with Weck, Worscht un Woi , not least through the Mainz carnival , has achieved supra-regional fame. Rhine Hesse is the largest of 13 regions producing German wine . Outside Germany, it is best known as the home of Liebfraumilch . Most is made from white varieties such as Riesling , Silvaner , Müller-Thurgau , Kerner , and Scheurebe . The best-known white wine area

100-576: Is a complete specimen, 85 cm tall, of the subspecies Dicerorhinus tagicus moguntianus . This is a forerunner to the Sumatran Rhinoceros ( Dicerorhinus sumatrensis ), which reaches a shoulder height of 110 to 150 cm, and which is also now threatened with extinction. Crocodile fossils have also been unearthed in Budenheim. At the Naturhistorisches Museum Mainz stands a copy of the 20,000,000-year-old rhinoceros presented as

120-800: Is characterised by large Loess and Marl deposits. Due to the favourable climatic conditions of Rhenish Hesse, agriculture covers most of the region. As the Hunsrück and Taunus ranges protect it from cold winds, wine and fruit production is practised on a large scale. The region comprises the cities of Mainz – the Rhineland-Palatinate capital – and Worms , surrounded by the administrative districts of Mainz-Bingen and Alzey-Worms . Other towns include Bingen , Alzey , Nieder-Olm , Ingelheim , Nierstein , Oppenheim , and Osthofen . Many inhabitants commute to work in Mainz or Wiesbaden and Frankfurt in

140-482: Is likewise held over four days, each year over the third weekend in September. The Chemische Fabrik Budenheim  [ de ] was founded in 1908 and has belonged to Geschwister Oetker Beteiligungen  [ de ] since 2021. The chemical specialist employs around 850 people at its site in Budenheim. “Budenheim” is shorthand for this chemical company in international communication and as such it has carried

160-456: Is made up of 25 council members, counting the fulltime mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 26 May 2019) The third place listed here is a town in East Frisia with which Budenheim fosters “friendly relations”. The municipality's arms might be described thus: Gules on a base sable Saint Pancras in armour with a sword on his belt all argent, in his hand dexter

180-1346: Is the Rhine Terrace near Oppenheim and Nierstein . Some red varieties are grown, particularly around Ingelheim and Gundersheim , including Pinot noir , Blauer Portugieser , Dornfelder , and the recently established Regent . Geschwister Oetker Beteiligungen Look for Geschwister Oetker Beteiligungen on one of Misplaced Pages's sister projects : [REDACTED] Wiktionary (dictionary) [REDACTED] Wikibooks (textbooks) [REDACTED] Wikiquote (quotations) [REDACTED] Wikisource (library) [REDACTED] Wikiversity (learning resources) [REDACTED] Commons (media) [REDACTED] Wikivoyage (travel guide) [REDACTED] Wikinews (news source) [REDACTED] Wikidata (linked database) [REDACTED] Wikispecies (species directory) Misplaced Pages does not have an article with this exact name. Please search for Geschwister Oetker Beteiligungen in Misplaced Pages to check for alternative titles or spellings. You need to log in or create an account and be autoconfirmed to create new articles. Alternatively, you can use

200-668: The Budenheimer Nashorn (“Budenheim Rhinoceros”) in view of the place where it was found. The Budenheim Flower Festival has since 1955 been celebrated at the onset of the blossoming season each year on the last weekend in April by choosing a Flower Queen. There are also two Flower Princesses to go with the Queen, and for one year they represent the Municipality of Budenheim on special occasions. The Budenheim Street Festival had its beginnings in

220-697: The Palatinate in the southwest, and on South Hesse beyond the Rhine. The Rhenish-Hessian Hills along the Selz river, also called the "land of the thousand hills", reach up to 358 m (1,175 ft) at the summit of the Kappelberg and about 330 m (1,080 ft) in Rhenish-Hessian Switzerland . The Mainz Basin , a Cenozoic marine basin , covered the area about 38 to 12 million years ago. The landscape

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240-824: The Weimar Republic , the People's State of Hesse from 1816 to 1945. The hilly countryside is largely devoted to vineyards, comprising the Rheinhessen wine region. Rhine Hesse stretches from the Upper Rhine Plain on the west bank of the Rhine up to the Nahe and Alsenz rivers in the west and down to the mouth of the Isenach in the south. The region borders on the Rhineland in the northwest, on

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280-690: The Lennebergwald. At this spot stands the Lennebergturm (tower), dedicated in 1880 and belonging to the Wander- und Lennebergverein Rheingold Mainz e. V. (a hiking club). Budenheim had its first documentary mention – albeit undated – as Butenheim in the Lorsch codex in a listing of the Lorsch Abbey ’s holdings in and around Mainz (Urkunde-Nr. 1977); this was the municipality’s only mention therein. The council

300-399: The cross on Saint Pancras's banner is sable (black) instead of gules (red). Heraldry of the World also shows a proposed coat of arms for Budenheim put forth in 1956, which apparently failed to win any great support. It is charged with Saint Pancras's banner only on an azure (blue) field and with a golden flagpole. Saint Pancras is Budenheim's patron saint, which explains why he was chosen as

320-505: The municipality's 1,200-year jubilee in 1978. This folk festival is staged by the association of Budenheim's clubs along with the individual clubs therein. The festival is held over four days and includes the last weekend in the Rhineland-Palatinate summer holidays. The Budenheim kermis (church consecration festival) goes back to the consecration of the Catholic Saint Pancras's Church ( Pankratiuskirche ) on 3 September 1747 and

340-575: The municipality's name throughout the world. Rhenish Hesse Rhenish Hesse or Rhine Hesse ( German : Rheinhessen , pronounced [ʁaɪnˈhɛsn̩] ) is a region and a former government district ( Regierungsbezirk ) in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is made up of territories west of the Upper Rhine river that were part of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and its successor in

360-685: The neighbouring state of Hesse . The importance of the Rhine Hessian lands increased when they were allotted to King Louis the German by the 843 Treaty of Verdun . The region was part of the core territory of Rhenish Franconia . It comprised the Imperial Cathedrals of Worms and Mainz which were erected in the High Middle Ages . The Worms Synagogue and the Jewish Cemetery count among

380-920: The oldest in Europe. Devastated by the Thirty Years' War , the area became a patchwork of possessions of the Catholic Electorate of Mainz and the Prince-Bishopric of Worms as well as of the Protestant Electoral Palatinate . Rhine Hesse was occupied by the First French Republic in 1792, during the War of the First Coalition . At the Congress of Vienna in 1814–15, Grand Duke Louis I of Hesse

400-632: Was obliged to give up his Westphalian territories. In compensation, he received the district on the left bank of the Rhine. Because of this addition, he amended his title to Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine and the name of the region was created. In Allied-occupied Germany , the Rhine Hessian lands were incorporated as a district into the newly established state of Rhineland-Palatinate in 1946. Each region has developed its own cuisine dependent on geography, climate, soils, seasons and wealth. These vary from plain home cooking with simple dishes to culinary specialities for festive occasions. Rhine Hesse also has

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