Bechenheim

Bechenheim
Coat of arms
Bechenheim
Location of Bechenheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°44′N 8°0′E / 49.733°N 8.000°E / 49.733; 8.000Coordinates: 49°44′N 8°0′E / 49.733°N 8.000°E / 49.733; 8.000
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Government
• Mayor	Gerhard Stadlinger
Area
• Total	2.55 km2 (0.98 sq mi)
Elevation	224 m (735 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	425
• Density	170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55234
Dialling codes	06736
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.bechenheim.de

Bechenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

As a winegrowing centre, Bechenheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district, in the southwest of Rhenish Hesse. Bechenheim is Rhenish Hesse’s highest winegrowing municipality.

In 824, Bechenheim had its first documentary mention in a document from Fulda Abbey.

The council is made up of 8 council members and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Gules a dexter arm embowed armed argent, the hand naked of the same and holding a beaker Or.

Bechenheim belongs to the “Wonnegau Winegrowing Area” (Weinbaubereich Wonnegau) in Rhenish Hesse. Active in the municipality are six winegrowing businesses with 33 ha of vineyard under cultivation. Some 76% of the wine made there is white varieties (as at 2007). In 1979, 22 such businesses were still running, and vineyards covered 32 ha.