| Image Coa: | DEU Gau-Bickelheim COA.svg |
| Coordinates: | 49.8356°N 8.0178°W |
| Image Plan: | Gau-Bickelheim in AZ.svg |
| State: | Rheinland-Pfalz |
| District: | Alzey-Worms |
| Verbandsgemeinde: | Wöllstein |
| Elevation: | 139 |
| Area: | 7.99 |
| Postal Code: | 55599 |
| Area Code: | 06701 |
| Licence: | AZ |
| Gemeindeschlüssel: | 07 3 31 030 |
| Website: | www.gau-bickelheim.de |
| Mayor: | Jürgen Vollmer[1] |
| Leader Term: | 2019 - 24 |
Gau-Bickelheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Gau-Bickelheim lies south of the Wißberg (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:[2]
| Gesamt | |||||
| 2009 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 16 seats |
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: “Pickaxe” 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.[3]
Running through the municipality is Bundesstraße 420. Running nearby from northwest to southeast is the Autobahn A 61. The Gau-Bickelheim interchange (Nr. 52) is not right on Bundesstraße 420, but rather, it can be reached over Bundesstraße 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.[5] In the mid 1990s, an off-highway service centre was built nearby.
Gau-Bickelheim has at its disposal a railway station on the Rheinhessenbahn.
