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Gau-Bickelheim

Coordinates: 49°50′08″N 08°01′04″E / 49.83556°N 8.01778°E / 49.83556; 8.01778
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Gau-Bickelheim
Coat of arms of Gau-Bickelheim
Location of Gau-Bickelheim within Alzey-Worms district
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Gau-Bickelheim is located in Germany
Gau-Bickelheim
Gau-Bickelheim
Gau-Bickelheim is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Gau-Bickelheim
Gau-Bickelheim
Coordinates: 49°50′08″N 08°01′04″E / 49.83556°N 8.01778°E / 49.83556; 8.01778
CountryGermany
StateRhineland-Palatinate
DistrictAlzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.Wöllstein
Government
 • Mayor (2019–24) Jürgen Vollmer[1]
Area
 • Total7.99 km2 (3.08 sq mi)
Elevation
139 m (456 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[2]
 • Total2,178
 • Density270/km2 (710/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
55599
Dialling codes06701
Vehicle registrationAZ
Websitewww.gau-bickelheim.de

Gau-Bickelheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography

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Location

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Gau-Bickelheim lies south of the Wißberg (mountain) in the Rheinhessisches Hügelland (Rhenish-Hessian Uplands).

Politics

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Municipal council

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The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[3]

CDU WG Gau-Bickelh. WG Erbenich Gesamt
2009 7 6 3 16 seats

Mayor

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Gau-Bickelheim's mayor is Jürgen Vollmer (WG Gau-Bickelheim).

Coat of arms

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The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per fess abased argent three pickaxes palewise in fess, the middle one abased, gules, and gules a wheel spoked of six of the first.

The pickaxes are a canting charge: “Pickaxe” is Pickel in German, which sounds rather like the second and third syllables of the municipality's name, Gau-Bickelheim. The escutcheon's base contains the Wheel of Mainz, an historical symbol of Electoral Mainz.[4]

Town partnerships

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Culture and sightseeing

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The Kreuzkapelle on the Wißberg near Gau-Bickelheim

Buildings

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  • Pfarrkirche St. Martin (“Saint Martin’s Parish Church”)[5]
  • Kreuzkapelle (“Cross Chapel”)

Economy and infrastructure

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Transport

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Running through the municipality is Bundesstraße 420. Running nearby from northwest to southeast is the Autobahn A 61. The Gau-Bickelheim interchange (Nr. 52) is not right on Bundesstraße 420, but rather, it can be reached over Bundesstraße 50. The interchange itself is rather a sprawling one and looks somewhat like a half cloverleaf. This came about because the original plan called for there to be an interchange between the A 60 and the A 61 here.[6] In the mid 1990s, an off-highway service centre was built nearby.

Gau-Bickelheim has at its disposal a railway station on the Rheinhessenbahn.

Public institutions

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Notable people

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  • The writer Arno Schmidt lived for a short while in Gau-Bickelheim after the Second World War as an Umsiedler (member of a mass migration). The municipality is mentioned in passing at the beginning of the narrative Schwarze Spiegel (“Black Mirrors”). The narrative Die Umsiedler gives this time a literary treatment.

References

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  1. ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
  3. ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
  4. ^ Description and explanation of Gau-Bickelheim’s arms
  5. ^ Pfarrkirche St. Martin
  6. ^ Netzplan vom 1. Januar 1976
  7. ^ Polizeiautobahnstation Gau-Bickelheim Archived 2011-01-12 at the Wayback Machine
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