Wallertheim

Wallertheim
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Wallertheim
Location of Wallertheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°50′08″N 08°03′05″E / 49.83556°N 8.05139°E / 49.83556; 8.05139Coordinates: 49°50′08″N 08°03′05″E / 49.83556°N 8.05139°E / 49.83556; 8.05139
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Wörrstadt
Government
• Mayor	Robert Majchrzyk (SPD)
Area
• Total	8.10 km2 (3.13 sq mi)
Elevation	127 m (417 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,732
• Density	210/km2 (550/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55578
Dialling codes	06732
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.wallertheim.de

Wallertheim 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, Wallertheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district, in the middle of the wine region of Rhenish Hesse. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wörrstadt, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

Wallertheim lies at the foot of the Wißberg (mountain). Through the municipality flows the river Wiesbach.

Wallertheim’s neighbours are Gau-Weinheim, Sulzheim, Armsheim and Gau-Bickelheim.

In Wallertheim, up to the present day, a great many archaeological finds have been made, of which the Wallertheimer-Hündchen (“Wallertheim little dog”) might well be the best known. It is 2.1 cm long and 1.6 cm broad. It is made of blue glass covered with white threads and was recovered as part of a find of grave goods in a child’s grave. Points of note are the short, round legs and the pointed ears on the head, which itself is somewhat too big. It can be found today at the Mainzer Landesmuseum in Mainz.

Wallertheim is known for other finds, from the Stone Age and Celtic times. From the Stone Age come remnants of wisent-hunting Neanderthal hunting spoils.