Budenheim

Budenheim
Coat of arms
Location of Budenheim within Mainz-Bingen district
Coordinates: 50°01′N 08°10′E / 50.017°N 8.167°E / 50.017; 8.167Coordinates: 50°01′N 08°10′E / 50.017°N 8.167°E / 50.017; 8.167
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Government
• Mayor	Rainer Becker
Area
• Total	10.6 km2 (4.1 sq mi)
Elevation	90 m (300 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	8,526
• Density	800/km2 (2,100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55257
Dialling codes	06139
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.budenheim.de

Budenheim is a municipality in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Unlike other municipalities in Mainz-Bingen, it does not belong to any Verbandsgemeinde.

The Municipality of Budenheim is the only Verbandsgemeinde-free municipality in Mainz-Bingen. The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse, 9 km west of Rhineland-Palatinate’s capital Mainz, and is bordered by the north-flowing Rhine 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 the Lennebergturm (tower), dedicated in 1880 and belonging to the Wander- und Lennebergverein Rheingold Mainz e. V. (a hiking club).

Budenheim had its first documentary mention – albeit undated – as Butenheim in the Lorsch codex in a listing of the Lorsch Abbey’s holdings in and around Mainz (Urkunde-Nr. 1977); this was the municipality’s only mention therein.

The council is made up of 25 council members, counting the fulltime mayor, with seats apportioned thus:

(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)

The third place listed here is a town in East Frisia with which Budenheim fosters “friendly relations”.

The municipality’s arms 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 same charges but in different tinctures. 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).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.