Weinolsheim

Weinolsheim 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. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.Neighbouring municipalitiesThese are Bechtolsheim (indirectly, as there is no road link), Dalheim, Dolgesheim, Friesenheim and Uelversheim.HistoryWithin what is now Weinolsheim’s municipal area about the year 500 lived Franks. It is believed that there was a Frankish village that was kingly domain, and therefore a royal estate. It is also thought that the placename comes from a Frankish elder kinsman named Winolf, who might have founded the village. On 22 October 789, Weinolsheim had its first documentary mention in a donation document from the Lorsch Abbey.PoliticsCoat of armsThe municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess abased, argent Saint Peter of the field clad in azure with nimbus, in his hand dexter a staff bendwise, in his hand sinister a key reversed plaewise Or, and Or an eagle displayed sable armed, langued and beaked gules.