Wiebelsheim

Wiebelsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Sankt Goar-Oberwesel, whose seat is in the town of Oberwesel.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies on the eastern edge of the Hunsrück, roughly 7 km from the Rhine at Oberwesel and 8 km north-northwest of Rheinböllen, at an elevation of some 440 m above sea level. It is bordered in the east by the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and the part of the Rhine valley that features the Loreley, although that is over on the other side. Here the gorge separates the Hunsrück from the plateau on the other side, the Taunus. Wiebelsheim has 631 inhabitants and an area of 7.32 km².HistoryWiebelsheim might have first arisen sometime between 800 and 1000 as one of the settlements in the Hunsrück’s heights, as other places with the placename ending —heim are known to have been founded by the Franks in that time.