Bockenheim an der Weinstraße

Bockenheim an der Weinstraße
Coat of arms
Bockenheim an der Weinstraße
Location of Bockenheim an der Weinstraße within Bad Dürkheim district
Coordinates: 49°36′17″N 8°10′57″E / 49.60472°N 8.18250°E / 49.60472; 8.18250Coordinates: 49°36′17″N 8°10′57″E / 49.60472°N 8.18250°E / 49.60472; 8.18250
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Dürkheim
Municipal assoc.	Grünstadt-Land
Government
• Mayor	Kurt Janson
Area
• Total	11.24 km2 (4.34 sq mi)
Elevation	160 m (520 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	2,157
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67278
Dialling codes	06359
Vehicle registration	DÜW
Website	www.bockenheim.de

Bockenheim an der Weinstraße (or Bockenheim an der Weinstrasse) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality lies in the Palatinate and the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land, whose seat is in Grünstadt, although that town is itself not in the Verbandsgemeinde. Bockenheim lies at the north end of the 85 km-long German Wine Route, and has even adopted an epithet referring to its location there: an der Weinstraße means “on the Wine Route” in German. The Route runs concurrently here with Bundesstraße 271.

Bockenheim is made up of two smaller centres called Großbockenheim and Kleinbockenheim (groß means “great” and klein “little”), which were merged in 1956. The two places arose from small settlements that themselves had grown out of Frankish estates after the Franks took the land about 500. In 770, Bockenheim had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch codex.

In April 1525, in the Palatine Peasants’ War – part of the German Peasants' War – the Bockenheimer Haufen (“Bockenheim Cohort”) was formed, a rabble of peasants who joined the uprising.

Until 1969, Bockenheim belonged to the now abolished district of Frankenthal (Landkreis Frankenthal). Since then it has been in what was then the newly formed district of Bad Dürkheim (Landkreis Bad Dürkheim). In 1972, it was grouped into the likewise newly formed Verbandsgemeinde of Grünstadt-Land.