Gernsheim

Gernsheim
Coat of arms
Gernsheim
Location of Gernsheim within Groß-Gerau district
Coordinates: 49°45′N 08°29′E / 49.750°N 8.483°E / 49.750; 8.483Coordinates: 49°45′N 08°29′E / 49.750°N 8.483°E / 49.750; 8.483
Country	Germany
State	Hesse
Admin. region	Darmstadt
District	Groß-Gerau
Government
• Mayor	Peter Burger (CDU)
Area
• Total	40.11 km2 (15.49 sq mi)
Elevation	88 m (289 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	10,069
• Density	250/km2 (650/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	64579
Dialling codes	06258
Vehicle registration	GG
Website	www.gernsheim.de

Gernsheim is a town in Groß-Gerau district and Darmstadt region in Hesse, Germany, lying on the Rhine.

The Schöfferstadt Gernsheim, as Gernsheim may officially call itself – it was Peter Schöffer's birthplace – lies 18 km southwest of Darmstadt and 16 km northeast of Worms, right on the Rhine's east bank, south of the Old Rhine near in the Frankfurt Rhein-Main Region.

Gernsheim borders in the north on the communities of Biebesheim and Riedstadt, in the east on the town of Pfungstadt and the communities of Bickenbach and Alsbach-Hähnlein (all in Darmstadt-Dieburg), in the south on the town of Bensheim and the communities of Einhausen and Groß-Rohrheim (all in Kreis Bergstraße) and in the west on the community of Hamm (Alzey-Worms).

Gernsheim consists of the centres of Allmendfeld, Gernsheim and Klein-Rohrheim.

In the first century, there was Roman settlement in what is now Gernsheim. By the 7th century, this had given way to Frankish settlement. In 852, Gernsheim had its first documentary mention, and was also later mentioned in the Lorsch codex.