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29-695: Nackenheim lies in Rhenish Hesse near Mainz . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bodenheim , whose seat is in the like-named municipality , and is the only Ortsgemeinde in this Verbandsgemeinde that lies right on the Rhine . It is a municipality idyllically set between hillside vineyards on the one side and the Rhine on the other, whose vineyards were first mentioned more than 1,200 years ago. The islands of Kisselwörth (35 ha) and Sändchen cut Nackenheim off from

58-411: A Vogt or an executive official of the ruler. As official ( villicus ) it was his duty to order his assigned village or county ( villicatio ) to pay the taxes and perform the services due to the ruler. The name originates from this function: Schuld 'debt' + heißen 'to order'. Later, the title was also used for the head of a town ( Stadtschultheiß ) or village ( Dorfschultheiß ). The office held by

87-507: A Schultheiß was called Scholtisei , Scholtisse (around 1400), Schultessy , Schultissīe , Schultissei (15th century); Latinized forms: sculdasia (10th century), scultetia (13th century). The title first appears in the Edictum Rothari of 643 AD, where it is spelled in post-Roman Latin as sculdahis . This title reappears again in the Lombard laws of Liutprand in 723 AD. The title

116-576: A detailed tender to begin an overhaul whose cost could be calculated for the municipality. Work began in November 1994. It was an outstanding performance. The Gunderloch Winery is a member of the Verband Deutscher Prädikatseingüter (VDP). Rhenish Hesse Rhenish Hesse or Rhine Hesse ( German : Rheinhessen , pronounced [ʁaɪnˈhɛsn̩] ) is a region and a former government district ( Regierungsbezirk ) in

145-459: 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

174-423: Is made up of 22 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus: (as at municipal election held on 7 June 2009) In May 2019, René Adler was elected as Nackenheim's mayor. The municipality's arms might be described thus: A bar argent, in chief sable an orb of the first, in base a wheel spoked of six of the first. In an expert's report from 25 May 1984, Chief Archivist Dr. Debus from

203-557: 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 the neighbouring state of Hesse . The importance of

232-518: 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 . Schulthei%C3%9F In medieval Germany, the Schultheiß ( German: [ˈʃʊltaɪs] ) was the head of a municipality (akin to today's office of mayor ),

261-785: 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 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

290-621: 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 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

319-644: 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 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

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348-593: The Second World War ended in 1945. In 1935 the Town Hall was thoroughly converted. Among other things, the entrance was put in the middle, where it is today. Further renovations followed in 1950 and 1951 for the Town Hall's 200th anniversary. The last overhauls came in 1962 and 1980. In the framework of a review in November 1992, considerable damage to ceiling beams by brown rot was observed, which led in December 1992 to

377-794: 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 the oldest in Europe. Devastated by the Thirty Years' War ,

406-562: The Rhine's mainstream. The two islands have conservation status and belong to the Rheinauen ("Rhine Floodplains") Habitats Directive area. Formerly, the area was under cultivation, but nowadays, meadow orchards ( Streuobstwiesen ) are found there. In the course of the Rhine straightening project in the 19th century, Kisselwörth and Sändchen were enlarged with landfill and current control works. Nackenheim's neighbours are Bodenheim , Nierstein , Lörzweiler and Trebur . The actual derivation of

435-534: The Speyer State Archive ( Landesarchiv Speyer ) made the following remarks: "Above the Nackenheim Town Hall entrance is found an arms stone, which deviates from the arms in question on the following points: Instead of the cross, a hook with a pointed angle adorns the globus cruciger, and the wheel is eight-spoked. … The keystone above the Town Hall entrance yields, surely in unwitting transformation,

464-565: The always six-spoked Wheel of Mainz , for it could only be this, with eight spokes. As to the other, the meaning of the Imperial apple ( Reichsapfel – the globus cruciger) was unclear. Demandt-Renkhoff (Hessisches Ortswappenbuch, 1956, S. 124 f) state that the Wheel of Mainz originally replaced seal representations of Saint Stephen’s stoning – a reference to Saint Stephen’s Monastery in Mainz as patronage lords of Nackenheim’s Saint Gereon’s Church. Likewise,

493-840: 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 was obliged to give up his Westphalian territories. In compensation, he received

522-549: 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

551-448: The first damage analysis, confirming this damage. Together with the municipality of Nackenheim, the historic preservation authorities and the assigned structural engineer, a far-reaching, extensive structural investigation was agreed upon with the goal of planning an overhaul for the Town Hall befitting a monument. This was also to include a building deformation survey. These important preliminary investigations had been and were necessary for

580-456: The ground floor was found a firefighting equipment room with the leather fire-quenching pails and the calibration master's equipment. His job was to measure the wine casks and certify with a brand stamp that they were calibrated. Moreover, there was a holding cell, locally called the Kittje , where wrongdoers were kept for short periods of time. Serving as the first Schultheiß at the new town hall

609-454: The local lordship. In the 16th century, a town hall was built on the monastery land, before which hereditary homage for the new local lord, the Elector of Mainz, was paid in 1616 by the inhabitants of the "market town ( Flecken ) of Nackenheim". This old town hall had to give way in 1751 to a new timber-frame building. The upper floors housed a room for the local court and a consulting room. On

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638-437: The municipal sign with Stephen’s stoning in it, which at first looked more like a Sester , underwent a gradual shift to a globus cruciger, which is why this form is used in the current municipal arms. The colours black and red, suggested by Demandt-Renkhoff and now also widespread, were retained, but on heraldic grounds and following the keystone already named several times furnished with a stripe, whose silver colour together with

667-428: The name Nackenheim is not known. One supposition holds that the name goes back to prehistoric Nackenheim and a chieftain named Nacho, yielding a name meaning "Nacho’s Home". Another explanation that has developed in the course of history according to which the name derives from the place's location in the "neck of the mountain" (in German : im Nacken des Berges ). Thus far, neither theory has been confirmed. The council

696-444: The red in the lower half of the escutcheon refers to Electoral Mainz . "The arms are historically well founded and heraldically flawless; their approval is recommended." The partnership is represented at the yearly wine festival by a wine stand. Into the 15th century, the village court's and the local administration's official business was being done outdoors under a tree on the lordly estate of Saint Stephen's Monastery, which held

725-643: Was Paul Kertz (1749–1763). In 1792, after the French Revolutionary army had marched in, a commander's office under Civil General Daniel Stamm moved in. In 1793, the citizenry elected, instead of the Schultheiß Johannes Herd the local clergyman Dr. Karl Melchior Arand as maire . During the short occupation in 1796, the French installed Wilhelm Jans as agent municipal . Beginning in 1797, when Nackenheim would belong to France for 17 years, only an adjunct

754-596: Was a niche in which it is believed a statue of the local patron saint, Stephen , once stood; since the French Revolution it had stood empty. Only in 1931 was a Madonna figure – "Mary Mother of Peace" – put there on council member Dr. Franz Usinger's motion to give thanks for the freeing of the Rhineland by Allied troops. During the Third Reich , the figure had to be taken down until it could assume its place once again when

783-505: Was in office at town hall; the maire sat in Bodenheim. This double-municipality administrative arrangement was kept by the Grand Duchy of Hesse beginning in 1816. The mayor of Bodenheim was also responsible for Nackenheim. In 1822, Nackenheim got an independent "Grand-Ducal Hessian Mayoralty" ( Großherzogliche Hessische Bürgermeisterei ) under mayor Johann Schneider (1822–1831). Above the Town Hall entrance with its coat of arms and year 1751

812-1061: Was originally spelled in Old High German as sculdheizo and in Middle High German as Schultheize ; it was Latinised as scultetus or sculteus . Alternative spellings include Schultheis , Schulte or Schulze , or in Switzerland Schultheiss . It also appears in several European languages: In Hungarian as soltész , in Slovak as šoltýs and škultét , in Italian as scoltetto and sculdascio , in Medieval Latin as sculdasius , in Polish as sołtys , in Romanian as șoltuz , and in Dutch as schout . Until as recently as 2007, Schultheiss

841-457: Was the title of the president of the government of the Canton of Lucerne , Switzerland. Schultheiß is also the basis for one of the most common German surnames, existing in many variations such as Schulz , Schultz , Scholz , etc., corresponding to the local variants of the pronunciation of the office. It also produced surnames in a number of other European cultures: see Schultheiss (surname) for

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