Budenheim | |
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Location of Budenheim within Mainz-Bingen district  | |
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| Coordinates:50°01′N08°10′E / 50.017°N 8.167°E /50.017; 8.167 | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Mainz-Bingen |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2018–26) | Stephan Hinz[1] (CDU) |
| Area | |
• Total | 10.61 km2 (4.10 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 90 m (300 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 8,669 |
| • Density | 817.1/km2 (2,116/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 55257 |
| Dialling codes | 06139 |
| Vehicle registration | MZ, BIN |
| Website | www |
Budenheim (German pronunciation:[ˈbuːdn̩haɪm]) is amunicipality in theMainz-Bingen district inRhineland-Palatinate,Germany. Unlike other municipalities in Mainz-Bingen, it does not belong to anyassociation of municipalities.
The Municipality of Budenheim is the onlyVerbandsgemeinde-free municipality in Mainz-Bingen. The municipality lies inRhenish Hesse, 9 km west of Rhineland-Palatinate's capitalMainz, and is bordered by the north-flowingRhine and the Lennebergwald (forest) on the residential community's south and west.
Budenheim's greatest elevation is the Lenneberg at 176.8 m, which is in the Lennebergwald. At this spot stands theLennebergturm (tower), dedicated in 1880 and belonging to theWander- und Lennebergverein Rheingold Mainz e. V. (a hiking club).
Budenheim had its first documentary mention – albeit undated – asButenheim in theLorsch codex in a listing of theLorsch Abbey’s holdings in and around Mainz (Urkunde-Nr. 1977); this was the municipality’s only mention therein.
The communal council is made up of 24 volunteer council members (elected in the communal elections on June 9, 2024) and full-time mayor Stephan Hinz (CDU) who took office after his predecessor Rainer Becker (CDU) stepped down prematurely in 2018 - having held office since 1998.
Current and past seat distributions:
| SPD | CDU | The Greens | FDP | FW | GLB | Total | |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 5 | - | 24 seats |
| 2019 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 2 | - | - | 24 seats |
| 2014 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 24 seats |
| 2009 | 6 | 12 | - | 2 | - | 4 | |
| 2004 | 6 | 13 | - | 2 | - | 3 |
Communal partnership programs
Budenheim has communal partnerships withEaubonne inFrance andIsola-della-Scala inItaly. It also maintains friendly relations with the town ofWiesmoor inLower Saxony.
Eaubonne,Val-d'Oise,France
Isola della Scala,Province of Verona,Veneto,Italy
Wiesmoor,Aurich district,Lower SaxonyThe third place listed here is a town inEast Frisia with which Budenheim fosters “friendly relations”.
The municipality'sarms might be described thus: Gules on a base sable Saint Pancras in armour with a sword on his belt all argent, in his hand dexter a flagpole argent bendwise flying from which the banner of Saint Pancras, argent a cross gules, standing on his foot sinister a shield argent charged with a cross gules.
Heraldry of the World shows a different coat of arms for Budenheim, with the samecharges but in differenttinctures. The shield at Saint Pancras's foot, for instance, is Or (gold), including the cross with which it is charged, and the cross on Saint Pancras's banner is sable (black) instead of gules (red).[3]Heraldry of the World also shows a proposed coat of arms for Budenheim put forth in 1956, which apparently failed to win any great support. It is charged with Saint Pancras's banner only on an azure (blue) field and with a golden flagpole.[4]
Saint Pancras is Budenheim's patron saint, which explains why he was chosen as a charge for the municipality's arms. The arms are based on a 16th-century village seal, and the tinctures are those from the arms borne byElectoral Mainz. These were chosen as no traditional tinctures were known.[5]
In 1911, the most important and finest specimen of arhinoceros, some 20 million years old from theMiocene, was unearthed in Budenheim. The fossil is displayed at theSenckenberg Museum inFrankfurt. It is a complete specimen, 85 cm tall, of the subspeciesDicerorhinus tagicus moguntianus. This is a forerunner to theSumatran Rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), which reaches a shoulder height of 110 to 150 cm, and which is also now threatened with extinction.Crocodile fossils have also been unearthed in Budenheim. At theNaturhistorisches Museum Mainz stands a copy of the 20,000,000-year-old rhinoceros presented as theBudenheimer Nashorn (“Budenheim Rhinoceros”) in view of the place where it was found.
The Budenheim Flower Festival has since 1955 been celebrated at the onset of the blossoming season each year on the last weekend in April by choosing a Flower Queen. There are also two Flower Princesses to go with the Queen, and for one year they represent the Municipality of Budenheim on special occasions.
The Budenheim Street Festival had its beginnings in the municipality's 1,200-year jubilee in 1978. This folk festival is staged by the association of Budenheim's clubs along with the individual clubs therein. The festival is held over four days and includes the last weekend in the Rhineland-Palatinate summer holidays.
The Budenheimkermis (church consecration festival) goes back to the consecration of theCatholicSaint Pancras's Church (Pankratiuskirche) on 3 September 1747 and is likewise held over four days, each year over the third weekend in September.
TheChemische Fabrik Budenheim [de] was founded in 1908 and has belonged toGeschwister Oetker Beteiligungen [de] since 2021. The chemical specialist employs around 850 people at its site in Budenheim. “Budenheim” is shorthand for this chemical company in international communication and as such it has carried the municipality's name throughout the world.[citation needed]
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