Breitscheid, Mainz-Bingen

Breitscheid
Breitscheid
Municipality
	Coat of arms
	Location of Breitscheid within Mainz-Bingen district
	Breitscheid Breitscheid
	Coordinates: 50°03′25″N 7°42′29″E / 50.05694°N 7.70806°E
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Mainz-Bingen
Municipal assoc.	Rhein-Nahe
Government
• Mayor (2019–24)	Marcel Rüdesheim
Area
• Total	5.29 km2 (2.04 sq mi)
Elevation	360 m (1,180 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	150
• Density	28/km2 (73/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	55422
Dialling codes	06743
Vehicle registration	MZ

Breitscheid is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Mainz-Bingen district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

Geography[edit]

Location[edit]

Breitscheid lies in the Hunsrück between Koblenz and Bad Kreuznach. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rhein-Nahe, whose seat is in Bingen am Rhein, although that town is not within its bounds. The placename comes from the Middle High German breit and -scheid: “wooded ridge”.

Politics[edit]

Municipal council[edit]

The council is made up of 5 council members who were elected by majority vote in a municipal election held on 2 March 2008.

Coat of arms[edit]

The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per pale argent a cross sable and gules in chief sinister a mullet of six, and in base a mound royal ensigned with a cross crosslet Or.