[3] It is hard to determine whether a place mentioned several times in the Lorsch codex, called Hagenheim can in any instance be identified as the village now known as Hackenheim.
After the Counts of Sponheim died out, the territory of the Hackenheim region was divided and knew a whole succession of oft-changing lords.
The rural cadastral name “Am Hochgericht” (“At the High Court”) even today identifies the place where death sentences passed by the Kreuznacher Landgericht were carried out.
Today, the former hanging place lies in the middle of land used as vineyards and can no longer be recognized for what it once was centuries ago.
From the time of Revolutionary and then later Napoleonic French rule, very little in the way of details about what happened locally has reached the present day.
It is known, however, that Hackenheim belonged to the Mairie (“Mayoralty”) of Bosenheim, the Canton of Wöllstein and the Department of Mont-Tonnerre (or Donnersberg in German) and only became a self-administering municipality once again after the Congress of Vienna had assigned the region to the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1816, after that state along with two others, and the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, concluded a territorial deal of their own in that year.
The advantage of Hackenheim having a further great hall right in the village and its favourable location at the borders of not only Hesse and Prussia but also the Kingdom of Bavaria (to which the Congress of Vienna had awarded a sizeable exclave in the Palatinate) led the whole region's Jewish population to hold a great ball here each year in late autumn.
Some 400 to 500 people would come to this ball, dance to music played by an orchestra from Kreuznach, exchange news and enjoy some good wine.
The Hackenheim Jewish ball came to an end about 1850 when the gathering's usual host emigrated to the United States.
The commercial and industrial development of the town of Bad Kreuznach in the last quarter of the 19th century, with its rising demand for workers and the resulting growth in population in its suburbs made itself felt in Hackenheim: in 1905, the village already had 770 inhabitants, and by 1936, this had risen to 978.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[8] Hackenheim's mayor is Sylvia Fels.
Über diesem Schild vor blauem Himmel die silberne Ganz-Figur des heiligen Michael als Drachentöter.
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure on ground Or Saint Michael with wings erect proper with nimbus of the second slaying a dragon gules at his feet with a lance of the second, surmounting the whole in base an inescutcheon party per fess chequy of fifteen azure and Or and vert two hoes in saltire argent.
In the Middle Ages, Hackenheim belonged to the “Further” County of Sponheim, and then passed after that house had died out into joint rule by the Margraviate of Baden and Electoral Palatinate.
Saint Michael is the local church patron, whom the municipality wanted to combine with the historical composition in the inescutcheon.
in Germany,[11] and is made up of 60 households who wish to develop relations between Tossiat's and Hackenheim's inhabitants, in tight collaboration with the commune.
The sport club TuS Hackenheim stages each year on the night of German Unity Day (3 October) the Kölschstandparty (Kölsch being a kind of beer).