Gumbsheim

Coat of arms

Gumbsheim

Location of Gumbsheim within Alzey-Worms district

Coordinates: 49°49′N 07°59′E / 49.817°N 7.983°ECoordinates: 49°49′N 07°59′E / 49.817°N 7.983°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Ludwig Jung

Area

• Total

3.34 km² (1.29 sq mi)

Elevation

139 m (456 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

602

• Density

180/km² (470/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

55597

06703

Website

Gumbsheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

As a winegrowing centre, Gumbsheim lies in Germany’s biggest winegrowing district and in the middle of the Rheinhessen (Rhenish Hesse) wine region. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Wöllstein, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

In Gumbsheim, the Dunzelbach empties into the Rohrbach.

Yearly precipitation in Gumbsheim amounts to 539 mm, which is very low, falling into the lowest tenth of the precipitation chart for all Germany. Only at 9% of the German Weather Service’s weather stations are even lower figures recorded. The driest month is January. The most rainfall comes in June. In that month, precipitation is twice what it is in January. Precipitation varies moderately. At 39% of the weather stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

In 738, Gumbsheim had its first documentary mention as Gimminsheim in a document from Lorsch Abbey.

There is an Evangelical church.

The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per bend sinister, azure a lion’s head sinister erased argent langued and crowned gules, and gules a wheel spoked of six of the second, over all on a bend sinister Or three bunches of grapes vert.

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