Dolgesheim

Dolgesheim
Coat of arms
Dolgesheim
Location of Dolgesheim within Mainz-Bingen district
Coordinates: 49°47′39″N 8°15′24″E / 49.79417°N 8.25667°E / 49.79417; 8.25667Coordinates: 49°47′39″N 8°15′24″E / 49.79417°N 8.25667°E / 49.79417; 8.25667
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Rhein-Selz
Government
• Mayor	Michael Schreiber (SPD)
Area
• Total	6.55 km2 (2.53 sq mi)
Elevation	199 m (653 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	947
• Density	140/km2 (370/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55278
Dialling codes	06733
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.dolgesheim.de

Dolgesheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Dolgesheim lies on the Gaustraße – Landesstraße (state road) 425 – halfway between Mainz and Worms. There is a further link by Bundesstraße 9 from Oppenheim by way of Dienheim, Uelversheim and Weinolsheim, or from Guntersblum by way of Eimsheim. Dolgesheim can also be reached from the A 61, Alzey interchange, by way of Gau-Odernheim and Hillesheim.

The greatest elevation is the Kreuzberg at 211 m above sea level.

Founded in the 5th century by Frankish tribes, the place known as Dulgisheim had its first documentary mention in 769 with a donation to the Lorsch Abbey. At this time, a Theo und Unsetz donated 2 morgens of cropland “in pago Wormat in Dulgisheimer Mark”. Early on, Dolgesheim belonged to the Counts of Leiningen, but passed in 1816 to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Between 1825 and 1931, the building of the Gaustraße between Mainz and Worms brought good links to Rhenish Hesse’s cities. Dolgesheim was also thereby joined to the water (1907) and electricity (1913) networks early on.