 Into the 15th century, the village court's and the local administration's official business was being done outdoors under a tree on the lordly estate of Saint Stephen's Monastery, which held the local lordship.In the 16th century, a town hall was built on the monastery land, before which hereditary homage for the new local lord, the Elector of Mainz, was paid in 1616 by the inhabitants of the "market town ("Flecken") of Nackenheim".This old town hall had to give way in 1751 to a new timber-frame building.