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Country
  
Germany

District
  
Alzey-Worms

Time zone
  
CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

Area
  
7.99 km²

Local time
  
Saturday 4:34 AM

Dialling code
  
06701

State
  
Rhineland-Palatinate

Elevation
  
139 m (456 ft)

Postal codes
  
55599

Population
  
2,102 (31 Dec 2008)

Postal code
  
55599

Municipal assoc.
  
Wöllstein

Gau-Bickelheim

Weather
  
2°C, Wind S at 5 km/h, 89% Humidity

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.

Contents

Map of 55599 Gau-Bickelheim, Germany

Location

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

Municipal council

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:

Mayor

Gau-Bickelheim’s mayor is Friedrich Janz (CDU).

Coat of arms

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.

Town partnerships

  • Aiserey, Côte-d'Or, France

    • Buildings

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

    • Transport

    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. 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

  • Gau-Bickelheim highway police station

    • Sons and daughters of the town

  • Richard Groß, politician

    • Famous people associated with the municipality

  • School inspector Franz-Josef-Spang, local historian
  • 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

    Gau-Bickelheim Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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