Wahlheim

Wahlheim (German pronunciation: [ˈvaːlhaɪm]) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It has 587 inhabitants and an area of 3.27 km (1.26 sq mi). The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey. Flowing through Wahlheim is the river Aufspringbach, known further downstream as the river Weidas. Wahlheim is the centre of the kühler Grund (“Cool Ground”). Wahlheim's neighbours are Esselborn, Freimersheim and Kettenheim. The village of Wahlheim in the Kettenheimer Grund, once known as Walaheim, belonged to Castle Alzey. In 1400, Count Palatine Ruprecht III bought two parts of the village and municipal area from the Burgmann Heinrich Bock von Lonsheim. From 1633, the village belonged to the Electorate of the Palatinate. In the municipal area, an estate of the Waida Monastery was discovered near Dautenheim.