title: Breitscheid, Mainz-Bingen
text: # Breitscheid, Mainz-Bingen
  
  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
  
  ### Location
  
  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
  
  ### Municipal council
  
  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
  
  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.
  
  ## Economy and infrastructure
  
  ### Transport
  
  Autobahn A 61 can be reached after a drive of roughly 10 km.
  
  