Gundersheim

Gundersheim
Coat of arms
Gundersheim
Location of Gundersheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°41′46″N 8°12′09″E / 49.69611°N 8.20250°E / 49.69611; 8.20250Coordinates: 49°41′46″N 8°12′09″E / 49.69611°N 8.20250°E / 49.69611; 8.20250
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Wonnegau
Government
• Mayor	Erno Straus (SPD)
Area
• Total	8.64 km2 (3.34 sq mi)
Elevation	152 m (499 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,591
• Density	180/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	67598
Dialling codes	06244
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.gundersheim.de

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

As a winegrowing centre, Gundersheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district and in the middle of the Rheinhessen (Rhenish Hesse) wine region. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wonnegau, whose seat is in Osthofen.

Gundersheim has an outlying centre called Enzheim, which was once a separate municipality.

In 769, Gundersheim had its first documentary mention in a donation document from Lorsch Abbey (Codex Laureshamensis Nr. 920). Even the Weißenburg Monastery in Alsace owned a lordly estate in the municipality in the 9th century, of which there is documentary proof. In the late 10th century, the Weißenburg holding became Salian property, and then a Staufer holding. From the High Middle Ages, the ownership passed from one noble family to another at a quicker pace. Among others, the Raugraves, Waldgraves and Rhinegraves, the Palatine Electors, the Dukes of Nassau and the Counts of Sponheim each had a share in the municipality. In 1475, Gundersheim became a wholly Electoral Palatinate holding, governed as part of the Oberamt of Alzey. With the French occupation of the Palatinate on the Rhine’s left bank in 1797, the municipality became part of the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German). After the Congress of Vienna, it belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse, and as of 1918 it was part of the People's State of Hesse. In 1946, it passed along with the former Hessian province of Rhenish Hesse (Rheinhessen) to the newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate.