Bermersheim

Bermersheim
Bermersheim
Coordinates
Administration
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc. Westhofen
Mayor Iris Cappel (FDP)
Basic statistics
Area 2.32 km2 (0.90 sq mi)
Elevation 175 m  (574 ft)
Population 319 (31 December 2010)[1]
 - Density 138 /km2 (356 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate AZ
Postal code 67593
Area code 06244
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.

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Geography

Location

Bermersheim lies in Rhenish Hesse, in the west of the Verbandsgemeinde of Westhofen, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

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 Westhofen), 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]

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)[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

References

External links

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.