Flomborn

Flomborn
Coat of arms
Flomborn
Location of Flomborn within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°41′26″N 08°08′57″E / 49.69056°N 8.14917°E / 49.69056; 8.14917Coordinates: 49°41′26″N 08°08′57″E / 49.69056°N 8.14917°E / 49.69056; 8.14917
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Government
• Mayor	Rainer Thomas
Area
• Total	7.94 km2 (3.07 sq mi)
Elevation	250 m (820 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,023
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55234
Dialling codes	06735
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.flomborn.de

Flomborn is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse, in the Rheinhessisches Hügelland (Rhenish-Hessian Uplands), and in the Wormsgau. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

Flomborn’s neighbours are Ober-Flörsheim, Dintesheim and Eppelsheim.

Flomborn has had many names over the ages, among which are Flamburn (1196), Blanbrunnen (1283), Flomburna (1324), Flonborne (1336), Flanborn (1362), Flamborn (1406), Flanbronnen (1424), Floborn (1509) and Flonborn (1787).

In its earliest days, the place belonged to the Bishopric of Mainz, with several churches, monasteries and noblemen holding estates there. Of the last, one noble family even bore the village’s name. One Rudewin von Flamburn crops up in the historical record as early as 1208, his name appearing in a document. The name Bruno von Flamburn was borne by one of the Ganerben – the joint rulers of the area – who granted the Marienborn Monastery at Weidas near Dautenheim the church rights at Gau-Heppenheim, and another Rudewin von Flamburn was named in 1295 as the arbiter of the Offenheim church rights for the Winter von Alzey family. A Berthold von Flamburn and his wife Christine were enfeoffed by the Archbishop Baldwin of Luxembourg of Trier, who then was the administrator of the Archiepiscopal Foundation of Mainz, with their estate, house and garden in the village of Flamborn in 1335 for 100 pounds in Hellers for a castle fief in Biebelnheim. It is likely that this old family also held the Vogtei in the village as a fief from the Bishopric of Worms. A Berthold von Flamburn and a Philipp von Gauwer held the office of Schultheiß, with the right to name a marksman, as a fief from the Bishopric of Worms, which Berthold’s son, Siegfried, and Gauwer had already received by 1406. In the same century, this fief passed to the family von Rodenstein and in 1483, Hans von Rodenstein was enfeoffed with the village of Flamborn, the estate and other holdings formerly held by Bishop Johann of Worms.