title: Aspisheim
text: # Aspisheim
  
  Aspisheim 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
  
  Aspisheim lies in Rhenish Hesse between Mainz and Bad Kreuznach. The municipality is administered by the Verbandsgemeinde of Sprendlingen-Gensingen, whose seat is in Sprendlingen.
  
  ## Politics
  
  ### Municipal council
  
  The council is made up of 13 council members, counting the part-time mayor, with seats apportioned thus:
  
  | Elections | FDP | Free voters FWG | Free voters WGG | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 2014 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 seats |
  | 2009 | 7 | 5 | – | 12 seats |
  | 2004 | 7 | 5 | – | 12 seats |
  
  * FWG = Freie Wählergruppe Aspisheim e.V.
  
  ### Coat of arms
  
  The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per pale Or a yarn swift sable palewise and sable a lion rampant Or armed argent and langued gules.
  
  ## Culture and sightseeing
  
  ### Regular events
  
  On the next-to-last weekend in August the municipality's residents stage the Rothesfest, a wine and street festival.
  
  ## Economy and infrastructure
  
  ### Transport
  
  The municipality is crossed by the L 414 state road . The A 61 motorway runs roughly 4 km away from the municipality.
  
  