NORDHEIM - The Nordheim district of Biblis has an island on its own doorstep with the mulberry floodplain, even if you have to share this island with your neighbors in Lampertheim. The mulberry meadow is one of the most beautiful and largest Rhine islands on the Hessian Upper Rhine. Many meadows are traditionally mowed twice a year and not fertilized. This resulted in a great diversity of species with a colorful display of flowers.
However, this island with the rare name is still relatively young. "Experts assume that the core of the island was only created as a result of floods in the 12th or 13th century," reports Günter Mössinger from the Nordheim History Association. As proof of this, he cites that on both sides of the Rhine a path there is called a “roadway” and thus names the path to a ferry across the Rhine - a Rhine crossing that has long since disappeared in the area of the current mulberry meadow.
The Celts were here in 500 BC