| Image Coa: | Sponheim wappen.gif |
| Coordinates: | 49.8458°N 7.7264°W |
| Image Plan: | Sponheim in KH.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Bad Kreuznach |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Rüdesheim |
| Elevation: | 230 |
| Area: | 14.35 |
| Postal Code: | 55595 |
| Area Code: | 06758 |
| Licence: | KH |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 1 33 101 |
| Website: | www.sponheim.de |
| Mayor: | Bernhard Haas[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
| Bürgermeistertitel: | Ortsbürgermeister |
Sponheim is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate in western Germany.
Sponheim was the capital of the County of Sponheim.
There was a Benedictine abbey which was founded in 1101 by Stephan II, Count of Sponheim not far from the comital residence at Castle Sponheim. Johannes Trithemius was one of the abbots.[2] Traveling from university to his home town in 1482, he was surprised by a snowstorm and took refuge in the Benedictine abbey of Sponheim near Bad Kreuznach. He decided to stay and was elected abbot in 1483, at the age of twenty-one. In his time, the abbey library increased from around fifty items to more than two thousand. However, his efforts were not met with praise, and his reputation as a magician did not further his acceptance. Increasing differences with the convent led to his resignation in 1506.