Mombach

Mombach
borough of Mainz
Coat of arms
Mombach
Location of Mombach within Mainz
Coordinates: 50°1′N 8°13′E / 50.017°N 8.217°E / 50.017; 8.217Coordinates: 50°1′N 8°13′E / 50.017°N 8.217°E / 50.017; 8.217
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Urban districts of Germany
Town	Mainz
Government
• Mayor	Dr. Eleonore Lossen-Geißler (SPD)
Area
• Total	6.32 km2 (2.44 sq mi)
Population (31.03.2015)
• Total	13,486
• Density	2,100/km2 (5,500/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55120
Dialling codes	06131
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	mombach.de

Mombach, with about 13,000 inhabitants, is a borough in the northwest corner of Mainz, Germany. Mombach can be reached via Mainz-innenstadt (downtown) or Bundesautobahn 643.

Mombach is located on the southern (left) bank of the Rhine River, flowing from east to west after converging with the Main. The Rhine River is the northern border. Mombach lies in the Mainz basin below the Rheinhessen Plateau.

Like Rheinhessen, Mombach is protected by Hunsrück, Taunus, Odenwald and Donnersberg. The average yearly temperature of Mombach is 11.5 degrees Celsius (53 °F). The annual rainfall is below 500 liters per square meter (19.7 in) and comes near to a semi-arid to mediterranean climate. There are around 1,665 hours of sunshine per year.

In 2006 Mombach celebrated its 750-year jubilee. Mombach had been originally a location of farmers, mariners and fishermen.

Archeological excavations prove that the site of Mombach had been already settled in prehistoric times. A flat hatchet dated to the early Bronze Age has been found in Mombach as well as many discoveries from Roman times. The formation of the locality happened most likely during the Frankish realm. The name Mombach is derived most likely from the Frankish name Muno (Munno). The 750-year jubilee dates back to a document of 1256 mentioning the city, but the locality is surely older.

During the Thirty Years' War, with the change of occupying forces of Mainz and surroundings (also Swedish and imperialists), the French troops deployed up to Mainz in the year 1644. During the first period of the war Anselm Casimir Wambold von Umstadt held the position as Amtmann of the village named by the cathedral chapter of Mainz Cathedral. As soon as the garrison had been weakened by the Ottoman wars in Europe, the French returned again. They devastated and occupied the left bank of the Rhine up to its natural border in 1688 including Mainz without a declaration of war. Not much later in 1689 Mainz had been reconquered by imperial forces in the war of the Palatinian Succession.