Gau-Bickelheim's mayor is Jürgen Vollmer (WG Gau-Bickelheim).
Coat of arms
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 cantingcharge: “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.[2]
Pfarrkirche St. Martin (“Saint Martin’s Parish Church”)[3]
Kreuzkapelle (“Cross Chapel”)
Economy and infrastructure
Transport
Running through the municipality is Bundesstraße 420. Running nearby from northwest to southeast is the AutobahnA 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.[4] In the mid 1990s, an off-highway service centre was built nearby.
The writer Arno Schmidt lived for a short while in Gau-Bickelheim after the Second World War as an Umsiedler (member of a mass migration). The municipality is mentioned in passing at the beginning of the narrativeSchwarze Spiegel (“Black Mirrors”). The narrative Die Umsiedler gives this time a literary treatment.
