Gau-Bickelheim

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Coat of arms of the local community Gau-Bickelheim
Gau-Bickelheim
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Coordinates: 49 ° 50 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Alzey-Worms
Association municipality : Wöllstein
Height : 124 m above sea level NHN
Area : 7.99 km 2
Residents: 2136 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 267 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 55599
Area code : 06701
License plate : AZ
Community key : 07 3 31 030
Association administration address: St. Floriansweg 8
55599 Gau-Bickelheim
Website : www.gau-bickelheim.de
Local Mayor : Jürgen Vollmer (Gau-Bickelheim shared flat)
Location of the local community of Gau-Bickelheim in the Alzey-Worms district
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Gau-Bickelheim is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wöllstein .

Geographical location

Gau-Bickelheim is located south of the Wißberg in the Rheinhessen hill country . Alzey is about 10 kilometers south-east and Bad Kreuznach is about 8 kilometers west . The Rhineland-Palatinate state capital Mainz is located 20 kilometers northeast of Gau-Bickelheim .

Neighboring communities are Gau-Weinheim , Wallertheim , Badenheim and Sprendlingen .

history

Gau-Bickelheim first appears in a document in 1128 under the name "Beckelnheim". Later place names were "Gaubeckelnheim" (1314), "Gaubekilnheim" (1329), "Gaubecklinheim" (1355), "Gawbickelheim" (1515), "Gauböckelheim" (1815).

politics

Municipal council

The municipal council in Gau-Bickelheim consists of 16 council members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice CDU WGR 1 WGR 2 total
2019 5 6th 5 16 seats
2014 7th 5 4th 16 seats
2009 7th 6th 3 16 seats
2004 7th 6th 3 16 seats

mayor

Local mayor is Jürgen Vollmer (Gau-Bickelheim voter group). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with a share of 79.46% of the vote, making him the successor to Friedel Janz (CDU), who was no longer running.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided. In the larger upper part there are three red dexels (or heels ) on a silver background . In the lower third the silver Mainz wheel on a red background.

Partnerships

Culture and sights

The Kreuzkapelle on the Wißberg near Gau-Bickelheim

Buildings

  • Parish Church of St. Martin
  • Kreuzkapelle

See also: List of cultural monuments in Gau-Bickelheim

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 420 runs through the village . The federal highway 61 leads northwest to southeast past it. The Gau-Bickelheim junction (No. 52) is not located directly on the B 420, but can be reached via federal road 50 . The junction is very spacious and is reminiscent of half an autobahn clover , as in the original plans the federal autobahn 60 should have crossed the A 61 here. In the mid-1990s, a truck stop was built near them .

The Gau Bickelheim stop is on the Worms – Bingen Stadt railway line and is served every hour. The Bingen city train station can be reached by regional train in approx. 20 minutes, Worms central station in approx. 45 minutes.

Public facilities

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities who have worked in the church

  • Dominique Beck (1772–1862), Mayor of Gau-Bickelheim 1818 to 1831 and 1847 to 1853 and member of the state parliament
  • Schulrat Franz-Josef Spang (1891–1971), local history researcher
  • The writer Arno Schmidt lived briefly as a resettler in Gau-Bickelheim after the war . The place is mentioned at the beginning of the story Black Mirror . The story Die Umsiedler refers literarily to this period.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gau-Bickelheim  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: City council election 2019 Gau-Bickelheim. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  3. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  4. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Wöllstein, Verbandsgemeinde, second line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  5. Network plan from January 1, 1976
  6. Police motorway station Gau-Bickelheim ( Memento from January 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ^ Short biography of Schulrat Spang ( Memento from September 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) woellstein.de