Dexheim

Dexheim
Coat of arms
Dexheim
Location of Dexheim within Mainz-Bingen district
Coordinates: 49°50′50″N 8°19′0″E / 49.84722°N 8.31667°E / 49.84722; 8.31667Coordinates: 49°50′50″N 8°19′0″E / 49.84722°N 8.31667°E / 49.84722; 8.31667
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Rhein-Selz
Government
• Mayor	Hubert Horn (FWG)
Area
• Total	5.69 km2 (2.20 sq mi)
Elevation	201 m (659 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,473
• Density	260/km2 (670/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55278
Dialling codes	06133
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.dexheim.de

Dexheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Dexheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in Rhenish Hesse. The winemaking centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz, whose seat is in Oppenheim.

Dexheim's history began long before its first documentary mention. Finds within Dexheim's municipal limits have yielded information about the Germani who lived here. These artefacts can be seen at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum) in Mainz. When the Romans needed bricks to build their castra, they took as their raw material the loam from Dexheim to shape and fire into bricks.

In 774 Dexheim had its first documentary mention in a donation document in which Charlemagne bequeathed a great estate to the Lorsch Abbey. The second documentary mention is contained in an act in which King Arnulf of Carinthia donated the church at Dexheim to the Fulda Abbey.

Dexheim was a Free Imperial Village, paying taxes only to the Emperor. Its coat of arms was a silver cross with the red “Imperial Apple”. With the neighbouring places of Nierstein and Schwabsburg it became the site of the common court. In 1376 it passed to the Oberamt of Oppenheim and remained with it until the Electorate of the Palatinate was no more.