Mommenheim

Mommenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.GeographyLocationMommenheim lies between Mainz and Worms in Rhenish Hesse. The winegrowing centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz, whose seat is in Oppenheim.HistoryIn 764, Mommenheim had its first documentary mention.PoliticsTown councilThe council is made up of 21 council members, counting the honorary mayor, with seats apportioned thus:(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)Coat of armsThe municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per pale gules a cramp surmounted by an orb voided inside which another orb argent and azure a wheel spoked of six argent.These arms were adopted on 28 June 1972. The old arms showed a silver field with the cramp (or Wolfsangel as it is called in German) with an empty ring in the middle. It may refer to the hunting rights granted Mommenheim in 1276 by Philipp von Hohenfels (in Germany the Wolfsangel is commonly held to be a kind of wolf trap). The wheel comes from the former lords’ arms – the House of Hohenfels, and then later the House of Bolanden as well – and is, in fact, the Wheel of Mainz.