Bermersheim

Bermersheim

Coat of arms
Bermersheim
Location of Bermersheim within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°40′55″N 8°13′25″E / 49.68194°N 8.22361°E / 49.68194; 8.22361Coordinates: 49°40′55″N 8°13′25″E / 49.68194°N 8.22361°E / 49.68194; 8.22361
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc. Wonnegau
Government
 • Mayor Iris Cappel (FDP)
Area
 • Total 2.32 km2 (0.90 sq mi)
Elevation 175 m (574 ft)
Population (2017-12-31)[1]
 • Total 317
 • Density 140/km2 (350/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 67593
Dialling codes 06244
Vehicle registration AZ
Website www.bermersheim.de

Bermersheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a winegrowing centre in the Rhenish Hesse wine region.

Geography

Location

Bermersheim lies in Rhenish Hesse, in the west of the Verbandsgemeinde of Wonnegau, whose seat is in Osthofen. Bermersheim can be reached through the Gundersheim interchange on the A 61, or by public transport from Worms.

Neighbouring municipalities

Bermersheim borders in the north on the municipality of Gundersheim, in the northeast on the municipality of Westhofen, in the south on the municipality of Gundheim (all in the Verbandsgemeinde of Wonnegau), in the southwest on the constituent community of Dalsheim in the municipality of Flörsheim-Dalsheim (Verbandsgemeinde of Monsheim), and in the northwest on the municipality of Ober-Flörsheim (Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land).

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected at a municipal election held on 7 June 2009, with the honorary mayor as chairwoman.

The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[2]

SPDFDPFWGTotal
20092338 seats
20042338 seats

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Argent three ears of wheat in fess palewise vert surmounted at the nombril point by a prong hoe fesswise sable.

The Verbandsgemeinde’s website shows a slightly different coat of arms, with the prong hoe’s handle in a different tincture, namely gules (red).[3] This site does not contain any text about Bermersheim’s coat of arms.

Culture and sightseeing

Natural monuments

Bermersheim is one of the places in Rhenish Hesse where mammalian remains from some ten million years ago have been found, in the prehistoric Rhine’s Deinotherium Sands, whose name comes from this extinct proboscid’s teeth and bone remnants, which are often yielded up by these deposits.

Further reading

  • Ernst Probst: Der Ur-Rhein. Rheinhessen vor zehn Millionen Jahren. GRIN, München 2009

References

  1. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz "Bevölkerungsstand 2017 - Gemeindeebene" Check |url= value (help). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz (in German). 2018.
  2. ↑ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
  3. ↑ Slightly different arms


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