century. Gemarkung Laimen Water cistern; Art Nouveau-type building, bossed blocks made of Flonheim sandstone, 1906 Sport Sportverein Bechtolsheim e.V. (SVB) (sport club) At the municipality’s disposal are a so-called sport centre with two football pitches (one turf, the other hard) and a sport hall with a clubhouse, and two tennis courts with artificial turf in the club’s old new development area. Schützenverein Petersberg Bechtolsheim e.V. (shooting club) The club’s shooting facility can be found on the road from Gau-Odernheim to Undenheim. Freizeitsportverein Bechtolsheim (sport club) Moreover, the municipality also has the “Bechtolsheim Leisure Sport Club”, which split from the SVB in 1982. Regular events Yearly kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerb or Kerwe) on the last weekend in August Since 1985, the kermis has been regularly held in Bechtolsheim. It is organized and run by the municipality’s 20-year-old Kerbeborsch and Kerbemäd (dialectal German for “kermis lads” and “kermis lasses”) The Kerbeborsch put the kermis tree (Kerbebaum – rather like a Maypole) up with the kermis wreath (Kerbekranz), with the typical Rhenish-Hessian dishes Weck, Worscht un Woi (Brötchen, Wurst und Wein in Standard High German, or “buns, sausage and wine”), and also Brezel. Then, the festival starts with the call Wem geheert die Kerb? (“To whom does the kermis belong?”), answered with UNSER (“Ours”), and with the kermis dance. The Kerbejahrgang (the 20-year-old “lads” and “lasses”) always gives the yearly kermis a particular motto. Economy and infrastructure Established businesses The municipality's economy is based mainly on winegrowing and agriculture. There are at least 13 wineries as well as a winemaking cooperative. Furthermore, the municipality is home to the kitchens of a medium-sized bakery business that supplies its own two shops in Bechtolsheim and Gau-Odernheim and also the travelling sales booths. The shop in Bechtolsheim is also a small supermarket, café and Toto Lotto centre. Through the café and the bakery, the Landmarkt (“country market”) is open the whole week. Further businesses in town are three automotive workshops, a discount filling station, an agricultural supply dealership, a carpentry shop, a fruitgrowing operation, a beekeeper, three hairdresser's shops, a dentistry practice and other, smaller service businesses. Until the turn of the century, the Volksbank Wörrstadt e.G. (now known as the Volksbank Alzey e.G.) and the Kreissparkasse Alzey (district savings bank) each had a branch in Bechtolsheim. After they both closed, the savings bank's premises were converted into a self-service kiosk