Bubenheim is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality

Municipalities of Germany

Municipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...

 belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde

Verbandsgemeinde

A Verbandsgemeinde is an administrative unit in the German Bundesländer of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.-Rhineland-Palatinate:...

, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen

Mainz-Bingen

Mainz-Bingen is a district in the east of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Rheingau-Taunus, the district-free cities Wiesbaden and Mainz, the districts Groß-Gerau, Alzey-Worms, Bad Kreuznach, Rhein-Hunsrück.-History:During the French occupation under Napoleon the district...

 district in Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....

, Germany

Germany

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Location

The municipality lies in the Selztal landscape conservation area with the nature conservation areas of Talberg, Flößrich/Gänsklauer and Binger Wiese. The winemaking centre belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim

Gau-Algesheim (Verbandsgemeinde)

Gau-Algesheim is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Mainz-Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Gau-Algesheim....

, whose seat is in the like-named town

Gau-Algesheim

Gau-Algesheim is a town in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Gau-Algesheim, a kind of collective municipality.- Location :...

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Population development

Over the last 150 years, the population figure has lain at about 500 or 550, although in the last ten years, it has grown to about 900.

Municipal council

The council is made up of 12 council members who were elected by majority vote in a municipal election held on 13 June 2004.

Coat of arms

The municipality’s arms

Coat of arms

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 might be described thus: Per fess at the nombril point Or an eagle displayed sable armed, langued and beaked gules, and gules in fess an ear of grain bendwise leafed, a cherry twig fructed of two and leafed of one and a bunch of grapes slipped bendwise sinister of the first.

Buildings

The Evangelical

Evangelical Church in Germany

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 and Catholic churches in Bubenheim are both open to visitors and stand near the village square.

Leisure and sport

Clubs in the municipality are the gymnastic club TV 1898 Bubenheim, the table tennis

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...

 club TTC Bubenheim and the singing club Gesangverein 1879 Bubenheim with the offshoot Weedies Soundtrain. An institution known beyond Germany’s borders is the film production company Exquiser Films.

Regular events

The Bubenheim kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerb) is always held on the third weekend in July.

Economy and infrastructure

Bubenheim is known above all for its winegrowing in the Kallenberg and Honigberg vineyards. Besides wine, though, asparagus

Asparagus

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 and fruit are also counted among the municipality’s main sources of income. The proximity to Ingelheim (Boehringer), Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

 (ZDF

ZDF

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...

, Schott) and to the Frankfurt Rhine Main Region makes Bubenheim a popular bedroom and weekend village for many commuters.

Transport

The community is crossed by Kreisstraße

Kreisstraße

A Kreisstraße is a class of road in Germany. It carries traffic between the towns and villages within a Kreis or district or between two neighbouring districts. In terms of importance, the Kreisstraße ranks below a Landesstraße , but above a Gemeindestraße or "local road"...

(district road) K 16. The A 60 autobahns and A 63

Bundesautobahn 63

is an autobahn in southwestern Germany. It connects the Mainz area to Kaiserslautern and the A 6 and is therefore an important connection between the Rhine/Main and the Saar areas...

can be reached by car in 10 to 20 minutes.

Sons and daughters of the town

• Fritz Bockius, (1882–1945), German jurist and politician (Zentrum), Member of the Reichstag

External links

• Municipality’s official webpage