Gau-Bickelheim is an Ortsgemeinde â a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality â in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Gau-Bickelheim lies south of the WiÃÂberg (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 Jürgen Vollmer (WG Gau-Bickelheim).
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: âÂÂPickaxeâ 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 BundesstraÃÂe 420. Running nearby from northwest to southeast is the Autobahn A 61. The Gau-Bickelheim interchange (Nr. 52) is not right on BundesstraÃÂe 420, but rather, it can be reached over BundesstraÃÂe 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.
Gau-Bickelheim has at its disposal a railway station on the Rheinhessenbahn.