Gau-Bickelheim
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Location of Gau-Bickelheim within Alzey-Worms district
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| Coordinates: 49°50′08″N 08°01′04″E / 49.83556°N 8.01778°ECoordinates: 49°50′08″N 08°01′04″E / 49.83556°N 8.01778°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Alzey-Worms | |
| Municipal assoc. | Wöllstein | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Friedrich Janz | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 7.99 km2 (3.08 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 139 m (456 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 2,070 | |
| • Density | 260/km2 (670/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55599 | |
| Dialling codes | 06701 | |
| Vehicle registration | AZ | |
| Website | www.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.
Gau-Bickelheim lies south of the Wißberg (mountain) in the Rheinhessisches Hügelland (Rhenish-Hessian Uplands).
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:
Gau-Bickelheim’s mayor is Friedrich Janz (CDU).
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.
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.
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