Dorsheim

Dorsheim
Coat of arms
Dorsheim
Location of Dorsheim within Bad Kreuznach district
Coordinates: 49°55′31″N 7°52′24″E / 49.92528°N 7.87333°E / 49.92528; 7.87333Coordinates: 49°55′31″N 7°52′24″E / 49.92528°N 7.87333°E / 49.92528; 7.87333
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bad Kreuznach
Municipal assoc.	Langenlonsheim
Government
• Mayor	Marlene Hölz (ULD (local voters' group))
Area
• Total	2.22 km2 (0.86 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	727
• Density	330/km2 (850/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55452
Dialling codes	06721
Vehicle registration	KH
Website	www.dorsheim.de

Dorsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Langenlonsheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. Dorsheim is a winegrowing centre.

Dorsheim lies on a slope in the Trollbach valley, west of the Nahe, shortly before it empties into the Rhine. The Trollbach valley is a place with extensive vineyards and marked hiking trails, and above it is the Naheblick, a lookout point that affords the visitor an outstanding view of the surrounding geography: Rhenish Hesse’s plains, the Rhine and the uplands beyond, namely the Taunus and the Hunsrück, and also the Donnersberg. To Dorsheim’s south lies Bad Kreuznach, while to the north lies Bingen am Rhein.

Clockwise from the north, Dorsheim’s neighbours are the municipalities of Münster-Sarmsheim, Laubenheim, Langenlonsheim, Waldlaubersheim and Rümmelsheim. All but the first lie in the Bad Kreuznach district. Münster-Sarmsheim lies within the neighbouring Mainz-Bingen district.