Sörgenloch

Geschichte

Sörgenloch is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse, some 14 km south of Mainz. It is the smallest municipality in the Verbandsgemeinde of Nieder-Olm, whose seat is in the like-named town. Sörgenloch lies among vineyards in the winegrowing region of Rheinhessen on the Selz and is a pilgrimage site of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz.The landscape is strongly characterized by winegrowing and fruit growing. Widespread renaturalization measures on the Selz and the Zornheimer Berg (mountain) have, however, greatly enhanced the natural surroundings.Neighbouring municipalitiesClockwise from the north, these are Nieder-Olm, Zornheim, Hahnheim, Udenheim and Saulheim.