 It belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Bodenheim, whose seat is in the like-named municipality, and is the only "Ortsgemeinde" in this "Verbandsgemeinde" that lies right on the Rhine.It is a municipality idyllically set between hillside vineyards on the one side and the Rhine on the other, whose vineyards were first mentioned more than 1,200 years ago.The islands of Kisselwörth (35 ha) and Sändchen cut Nackenheim off from the Rhine's mainstream.