Wendelsheim

Geschichte

Wendelsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationAs a winegrowing centre, Wendelsheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district, in the middle of the wine region of Rhenish Hesse, 10 km west of Alzey. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wöllstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Through the municipality flow the rivers Wiesbach and Finkenbach. These two brooks drove several watermills in the Late Middle Ages.HistoryIn 766, Wendelsheim had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch codex . Celtic finds, however, establish that the area was already settled in prehistory. As with all places whose names end in —heim, it might have been a Frankish settlement.