Ockenheim

Ockenheim
Coat of arms
Ockenheim
Location of Ockenheim within Mainz-Bingen district
Coordinates: 49°56′31″N 07°58′19″E / 49.94194°N 7.97194°E / 49.94194; 7.97194Coordinates: 49°56′31″N 07°58′19″E / 49.94194°N 7.97194°E / 49.94194; 7.97194
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Gau-Algesheim
Government
• Mayor	Arnold Müller (CDU)
Area
• Total	6.03 km2 (2.33 sq mi)
Elevation	261 m (856 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	2,552
• Density	420/km2 (1,100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55437
Dialling codes	06725
Vehicle registration	MZ
Website	www.ockenheim.de

Ockenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The winegrowing centre lies in Rhenish Hesse, and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.

In 835, Ockenheim had its first documentary mention. The Marian monastery St. Maria ad Gradus in Mainz held a considerable share of the local landholdings and in return saw to it that the place was supplied with pastoral care.

By opening up new residential areas and a commercial area, Ockenheim grew and the original settlement pattern was changed.

The council is made up of 19 council members, counting the mayor, with seats apportioned thus:

(as at municipal election held on 13 June 2004)

The council’s size is fixed at 16 seats. The mayor and the two deputies are, given their offices, on the council as well (hence 19).

Elections 2014:

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Argent a chevron reversed azure.

The earliest known seal dates from 1457 and shows the same composition as today’s arms, with the “reversed” (that is, upside down) chevron. The same also appeared in all later seals. The arms are based on those once borne by the Lords of Ockenheim, the local vassals who had been enfeoffed by the Archbishops of Mainz.

With regards to transport, the municipality is favourably located on Autobahn A 60 and near Autobahn A 61. The station on the Gau Algesheim–Bad Kreuznach line, connecting to the Nahe Valley line to Saarbrücken was re-opened in 1996. Ockenheim is linked to the Bingen am Rhein municipal bus network.