Biebelsheim

Indirect proof of the village's early existence comes from the Binger Mauerbauordnung (“Bingen Wall-Building Order”), which obliged, among many other places in the lower Nahe region, Biebelsheim to contribute to the Bingen town wall's upkeep.

Biebelsheim, which from the latter half of the 13th century belonged exclusively to the Counts of Falkenstein and their heirs, was thereby annexed to the Habsburg hereditary domains.

[3][4] Only the absorption of the village into French territory in the late 18th century and the attendant thorough change to the political map ended the more-than-500-year-old Falkenstein hegemony.

Until the occupation of the region by the Spaniards early in the Thirty Years' War, only Protestant services were held at the church.

During French Revolutionary and Napoleonic times, Biebelsheim belonged to the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German) and formed together with Ippesheim (now a constituent community of Bad Kreuznach) a mairie (“mayoralty”) that lasted until 1901.

Biebelsheim's population development shows trends typical for the whole of Rhenish Hesse: in 1815, the village had 317 inhabitants.

In the realm of social life, too, Biebelsheim did not distinguish itself from other places where it is known that from the mid 19th century there was lively club activity.

[1] The German blazon reads: In geteiltem Schild oben ein goldener Buchstabe B in Rot, unten drei rote sechszackige Sterne in Gold.

The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess gules the letter B Or and Or three mullets of the first.

The charges in the lower field, the three mullets (star shapes), are drawn from the 1537 Biebelsheim court seal.

[9] The website rheinhessen.de shows a different coat of arms for Biebelsheim, namely “Gules the letter B between three mullets, all Or” (shown at right).

Other arms shown by rheinhessen.de
Obergasse 3: Saint Martin’s Evangelical Church