Saulheim

Saulheim
Coat of arms
Saulheim
Location of Saulheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°52′44″N 8°9′23″E / 49.87889°N 8.15639°E / 49.87889; 8.15639Coordinates: 49°52′44″N 8°9′23″E / 49.87889°N 8.15639°E / 49.87889; 8.15639
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Wörrstadt
Government
• Mayor	Martin Fölix
Area
• Total	18.94 km2 (7.31 sq mi)
Elevation	154 m (505 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	7,630
• Density	400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55291
Dialling codes	06732
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.saulheim.de

Saulheim 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 and is the second biggest Ortsgemeinde in the Verbandsgemeinde of Wörrstadt, whose seat is in the like-named municipality. It covers an area of 18.94 km² and has a population of 7395 (31 December 2014).

In 763, Saulheim had its first documentary mention, and is thereby one of the oldest places in Rhenish Hesse.

The municipality of Saulheim was formed on 7 June 1969 from the two formerly autonomous municipalities of Nieder-Saulheim and Ober-Saulheim.

Some two thirds of the population is Evangelical, while the other third, aside from a few non-religious people, is Catholic. Standing in the municipality are three church buildings, two Evangelical and one Catholic.

The council is made up of 22 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Gules three moons increscent proper.

These arms are the same ones formerly borne by Nieder-Saulheim before the merger in 1969. The other arms, shown at left, are Ober-Saulheim’s old arms. They might be blazoned: Azure diapered on a pale Or the Long Stone of Saulheim of the field (see Cultural monuments below).

One of Saulheim’s peculiarities is the Sängerhalle – "Singers’ Hall" – built in 1904, which was endowed for his home village by Friedrich Weyerhäuser (1834–1914) who had emigrated to the United States and become successful in the lumber business there.

Saint Bartholomew’s Church (Kirche St. Bartholomäus) comes from the 14th century. Its foundation stone was laid in 1344. It was a successor building to a late mediaeval country church of the Bishop of Mainz. The Auferstehungsfenster ("Resurrection Windows") in the chancel were created by Alois Plum.