Wattenheim

Wattenheim
Coat of arms
Wattenheim
Location of Wattenheim within Bad Dürkheim district
Coordinates: 49°31′18″N 08°03′42″E / 49.52167°N 8.06167°E / 49.52167; 8.06167Coordinates: 49°31′18″N 08°03′42″E / 49.52167°N 8.06167°E / 49.52167; 8.06167
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Hettenleidelheim
Government
• Mayor	Andreas Werle (SPD)
Area
• Total	12.53 km2 (4.84 sq mi)
Elevation	312 m (1,024 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,526
• Density	120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67319
Dialling codes	06356
Vehicle registration	DÜW
Website	www.vg-h.de

Wattenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Wattenheim lies on a cone-shaped hill with a gentle slope. This village in the Leiningerland – the name for the lands once held by the Counts of Leiningen – is a starting point for long or short hikes. Wattenheim belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hettenleidelheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Until 1969 it also belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal.

Clockwise from the northeast, these are Hettenleidelheim, Neuleiningen, Altleiningen, Carlsberg, an exclave of Neuleiningen, Bad Dürkheim, Fischbach, Enkenbach-Alsenborn, Ramsen and Eisenberg.

Various finds lead to the conclusion that the Romans had already established some kind of settlement in what is now Wattenheim. Wattenheim’s first documentary mention in 793 in the Lorsch codex is said to be disputed. It is believed that the village had its first documentary mention in 1221. In the Middle Ages, Wattenheim belonged to the House of Leiningen. In 1695, it was sold to the Baron of Blumencron.