| Image Coa: | DEU Dorn-Duerkheim COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 49.7683°N 8.2694°W |
| Image Plan: | Dorn-Dürkheim in MZ.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Mainz-Bingen |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Rhein-Selz |
| Elevation: | 172 |
| Area: | 5.60 |
| Postal Code: | 67585 |
| Area Code: | 06733 |
| Licence: | MZ |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 3 39 201 |
| Website: | www.vg-rhein-selz.de |
| Mayor: | Claus-Dieter Biegler[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Dorn-Dürkheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Dorn-Dürkheim lies between Mainz and Worms, in the “Heart of Rhenish Hesse”. The municipality belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz.
In 767, Dorn-Dürkheim had its first documentary mention in a document from the Lorsch Abbey. The municipality belonged from the 10th to 12th century to the Bishopric of Worms and passed thereafter as a fief to the Lords of Bolanden. Assigned to the Oberamt of Alzey beginning in 1457, Dorn-Dürkheim was temporarily occupied by the French, before the community, along with the whole province of Rhenish Hesse passed to the Grand Duchy of Hesse. In 1897, Dorn-Dürkheim acquired a railway link on the Osthofen–Gau-Odernheim line.
Since the Second World War, Dorn-Dürkheim has belonged to the newly founded federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at first in the Alzey-Worms district. The municipality was incorporated into the Verbandsgemeinde of Guntersblum in 1972 and was also assigned to the Mainz-Bingen district.
The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
| Wählergruppe Schmitt | Total | |||
| 2004 | 7 | 5 | 12 seats |
The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess sable a demi-lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and azure a crozier from base issuant, the crook ending in a rose argent.[2]
The nearest Autobahn interchange is Biebelnheim on the A 63, some 10 km away.
In 1972, one of Europe's richest mammalian fossil fields was discovered through pedological investigation at Dorn-Dürkheim, with many species from the Miocene. In an oxbow of the ancient Rhine bone and tooth fragments were recovered from more than 70 mammalian species, among others sabre-toothed cats, hyenas, tapirs, muntjacs, dwarf deer, forest antelopes, forerunners of today's horses, and proboscideans from the time about 8.5 million years ago[3]