In April 1911, Martin Mörsch from Fürfeld announced to the Alzey district office:I must ask something of you, for while digging earth for a field shed, I found a sea creature's skeleton.

The investigation yielded the information that it was the fossilized skeleton of a seacow, Halitherium schinzii, from which, however, the head and tail were both missing.

Assigned to late La Tène times is an ancient Celtic population – "Gaulish" in Roman eyes – who supplied Fürfeld with what is widely regarded as its finest prehistoric find, a necked vase.

In January 1913 the following was reported from Fürfeld:Not far from the crossing in the upper village – Hintenherum (roughly "round behind") as they say locally – five human skeletons were dug up during an excavation; 4 lay about a metre deep in the earth, the other only about 50 cm.

The Jahresbericht der Denkmalpflege im Großherzogtum Hessen ("Yearly Report of Monument Care in the Grand Duchy of Hesse") added:Found at Wilhelm Mattern II's neighbouring building site were a sword of 73 cm in length, two small metallic objects and a flint…According to a writeup by Prof. Anthes, the discovery mainly deals with five skeletons of which the fifth had as grave goods a great Frankish slashing sword (scramaseax) as well as two little bronze buckles.

Landschaft, Wein und Kultur, the municipality of Fürfeld is almost alone in knowing its founding date, sharing this distinction only with Schornsheim and Mainz.

[7] On 13 June 897, a Monday, in Herlisheim, King Zwentibold issued a donation document for Saint Maximin's Imperial Abbey near Trier, which, among other things, gave Fürfeld its first documentary mention, as Furnifeld.

Contemporaries called him brazen, spiteful and violent, and it is reported that once, in the course of a difference of opinion with his chancellor – Archbishop Ratbod of Trier, no less – Zwentibold beat him with a club.

The rights laid down in the document were confirmed several times: From 960 onwards, the Emichones are encountered in records as having been the Salians’ viscounts in the Nahegau.

On 22 January 1362, Raugrave Ruprecht IV sold "Uben and what we had there, godsend, house, meadows, vineyard, cropfields, forest, tithes, tax, water and ways" for 500 pounds to Lord Emerich Rost von Waldeck.

Iben was in fact an Electoral-Trier holding, but pledgings and even sales of fiefs were not only possible but even customary as long as the feudal lord was willing.

[9] As early as 1506, at the village level of jurisdiction, out of Germanic/German tradition, division of power between the judiciary and the executive was not the only thing that already existed.

The office of Heimburge, who was no lordly official, but rather a representative of the community, shows that the village constitution in Fürfeld exhibited strong collective traits.

It is surely not superfluous to refer to such early forms of political organization not exercised by the nobility, because a common preconception has it that Germans only ever learnt democracy by French Revolutionary or, even later, Anglo-Saxon coaching.

The family von Cronberg, whose castle seat lies north of Frankfurt at the edge of the Taunus, cropped up in Fürfeld not, as was formerly believed, in 1553. much less as late as 1571, but rather as early as 1521.

For the assumption that Hartmut von Cronberg, Luther's penfriend and reform-minded publicist, subscribed in Fürfeld to the schism then taking place, there is no proof.

"The first onslaught of the Revolutionary Army led by Custine in 1792 messed up Southwest Germany's whole Kleinstaaterei" and introduced the "destruction of the small powers that were incapable of living as a state".

Apart from the already "fascistoid" mode of expression, these sentences are worth noting because it seems that the renowned constitutional historian Fritz Hartung (1883-1967) appears utterly to overlook that most of these "small powers that were incapable of living as a state" – for example Fürfeld – had by the time of their "destruction" existed for several centuries, a duration that has thus far not been matched by any stately body on German soil since that time.

The political philosopher and representative purveyor of Revolutionary ideology, Jean-Jacques Rousseau himself (1712-1778) had in a lighter moment (1761) written that no other polity could match the German in wisdom.

For the former Imperial knightly self-governing political body that Fürfeld hitherto had been, the Revolutionary French annexation of the German lands on the Rhine's left bank marked a new phase in history, one in which it still finds itself today, for the imposition of a new administrative system on the French model made the village into an incorporated municipality unencumbered by any feudal lord.

After Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power in 1933, every member of the Jewish community moved away or emigrated over the next six years in the face of antisemitic laws that stripped Jews of their rights, the economic boycott and other repressive measures.

The new synagogue was consecrated with a great parade, a concert and a ball with the Mainz 1888 Infantry Regiment's musical corps participating from 9 to 11 August 1895.

A magazine published by the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (CV-Zeitung) reported on 31 August 1928: "Hermann Goldschmidt from Los Angeles (California), an old Fürfelder (Hesse), declared himself ready upon arrival in his old homeland to have the synagogue renovated at his expense in memory of his parents."

The local physical geography thwarted any expansion for a while, until the builders gave up the idea of boring a tunnel through the Hexenkanzel ("Witches’ Pulpit") and instead chose to build the line with a great many curves.

To grade the railway properly, 1 000 m³ of earth had to be moved in the rural cadastral area "Am Schwarzen Kreuz" near Fürfeld.

The figures for the years from 1871 to 1987 are drawn from census data:[14] The name "Fürfeld" means "Pinefield" and might originally have described a field with pines in it.

Pines form a genus (Pinus) of conifers, and the root from which springs the first syllable in Fürfeld's name can be found in almost all Germanic languages, including Modern High German (Föhre, which still means "pine") and English (fir, although this has undergone a shift in meaning to the related genus Abies).

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[17] "WG" means Wählergruppe – "voters’ group".

The village belonged to the Rhenish Knighthood (Rheinische Ritterschaft), which explains the halved ("dimidiated") Imperial Eagle (and possibly a two-headed one, as one whole head can be seen) in the third field.

[21] The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate's Directory of Cultural Monuments:[22] Fürfeld belongs to the "Bingen Winegrowing Area" within the Rhenish Hesse wine region.