Biblis

Biblis
Coat of arms
Biblis
Location of Biblis within Bergstraße district
Coordinates: 49°42′0″N 8°28′0″E / 49.70000°N 8.46667°E / 49.70000; 8.46667Coordinates: 49°42′0″N 8°28′0″E / 49.70000°N 8.46667°E / 49.70000; 8.46667
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Bergstraße
Government
• Mayor	Felix Kusicka
Area
• Total	40.44 km2 (15.61 sq mi)
Elevation	93 m (305 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	8,910
• Density	220/km2 (570/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	68647
Dialling codes	06245
Vehicle registration	HP
Website	www.gemeinde-biblis.de

Biblis is a community in the Bergstraße district in southern Hessen, Germany.

The community lies in the Rhine rift west of the Odenwald between Darmstadt to the north and Mannheim to the south; it also lies north of Bürstadt. Biblis lies directly north of the lower reaches of the Weschnitz, which empties into the Rhine only a few kilometres northwest of the community.

Biblis borders in the north on the communities of Groß-Rohrheim and Gernsheim, in the east on the community of Einhausen, in the south on the towns of Bürstadt and Lampertheim and in the west on the district-free city of Worms (Rhineland-Palatinate).

Biblis’s three Ortsteile are Biblis, Nordheim and Wattenheim.

In 836, Biblis had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch Abbey’s Codex Laureshamensis under the name Bibifloz (“settlement at the water”) when King Louis the German donated his holdings in Biblis, Wattenheim and Zullestein to his faithful vassal Wernher, who in turn bequeathed them to the Lorsch Abbey in 846. From 1461 to 1623, the area was pledged to the Palatinate, and in the Reformation’s wake it became Protestant, although after the retrocession, it became Catholic again. During the Thirty Years' War, the community was laid waste several times, and the populace was decimated by the Plague. With Secularization in 1803, the community passed to what later became the Grand Duchy of Hesse and was assigned to the district of Worms.