Wolfsheim (Gemeinde)

Geschichte

Wolfsheim 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.HistoryThe placename likely goes back to a Frankish settler named Wulfilo. In the geographer Gerardus Mercator’s 1595 world atlas, the place was catalogued under the name WOLFZIMIn 1844, within Wolfsheim’s limits, an important gold find was made at a princely grave from the time of the Migration Period.In 1974, Wolfsheim was split away from the Alzey-Worms district and incorporated into the Mainz-Bingen district.