Gau-Algesheim
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Location of Gau-Algesheim within Mainz-Bingen district
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| Coordinates: 49°57′N 8°01′E / 49.950°N 8.017°ECoordinates: 49°57′N 8°01′E / 49.950°N 8.017°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Mainz-Bingen | |
| Municipal assoc. | Gau-Algesheim | |
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| • Mayor | Dieter Faust (CDU) | |
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| • Total | 13.99 km2 (5.40 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 121 m (397 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 6,762 | |
| • Density | 480/km2 (1,300/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55435 | |
| Dialling codes | 06725 | |
| Vehicle registration | MZ | |
| Website | www |
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Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim, a kind of collective municipality.
Gau-Algesheim lies roughly 20 km west of Mainz and just under 3 km away from the Rhine on the edge of the Ingelheimer Rheinebene (“Ingelheim Rhine Plain”) on the terraces at the Rhenish Hesse West Plateau, into whose varied soil structure the “Geo-Ecological Teaching Path” on the Westerberg slopes allows a glimpse. Through the municipal area flows the Welzbach.
Clockwise from the north, these are Ingelheim, Appenheim, Ockenheim and Bingen.
Gau-Algesheim’s Stadtteile are Gau-Algesheim and Laurenziberg.
In Roman times this was a border area, but already by the Middle Ages it had grown into part of the Holy Roman Empire’s heartland.
Before the town’s first documentary mention in the Lorsch codex in 766, Alagastesheim may already have had more than two centuries of history behind it. The documents about Alagastesheim and Bergen (Laurenziberg) in the lists of holdings from the Lorsch and Fulda Abbeys beginning in 766-767 allow inferences about cropraising, livestock raising, winegrowing, fruitgrowing and individual inhabitants’ wealth. Gau-Algesheim came to the fore in history along with all the other places in the Binger Land with the ″Verona Donation″ on 14 June 983, when Emperor Otto II donated to his Archchancellor Willigis in Verona the town of Bingen and the land “that stretches this side of the Rhine from the bridge over the Selzbach as far as Heimbach, beyond the Rhine but from the spot where the Elzbächlein (a small stream) flows into the same, as far as the little village of Caub”.
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