Bermersheim

Bermersheim
Bermersheim
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Location of Bermersheim within Alzey-Worms district
	Bermersheim Bermersheim
	Coordinates: 49°40′55″N 8°13′25″E / 49.68194°N 8.22361°E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Wonnegau
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Andreas Obenauer
Area
• Total	2.32 km2 (0.90 sq mi)
Elevation	175 m (574 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	350
• Density	150/km2 (390/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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:^[3]

	SPD	FDP	FWG	Total
2009	2	3	3	8 seats
2004	2	3	3	8 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).^[4] 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.

References

^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.
^ "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.
^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
^ Slightly different arms^{[permanent dead link‍]}

External links

Official website (in German)

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[1] Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Alzey-Worms, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 3 August 2021.

[2] "Bevölkerungsstand 2022, Kreise, Gemeinden, Verbandsgemeinden" (PDF) (in German). Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz. 2023.

[3] Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat

[4] Slightly different arms^{[permanent dead link‍]}

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