 At the foot of the porphyry massif known as the Rotenfels, Norheim has a 1,200-year-long history as the oldest wine village on the Nahe, at least going by historical records.In 766, Norheim had its first documentary mention as "Narheim in pago Nahgowe" (“Norheim in the Nahegau country”) when the Frankish free noble Adalger sold his landhold, which lay in "Narheim", for two pounds of silver to Lorsch Abbey on the Bergstraße.The record of this is contained in the abbey’s old directory of holdings, the Lorsch codex ("Codex Laureshamensis"), document no.