Albig

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Albig
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Coordinates: 49 ° 46 '  N , 8 ° 7'  E

Basic data
State : Rhineland-Palatinate
County : Alzey-Worms
Association municipality : Alzey Land
Height : 175 m above sea level NHN
Area : 10.24 km 2
Residents: 1606 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 157 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 55234
Area code : 06731
License plate : AZ
Community key : 07 3 31 001
LOCODE : DE AIG
Association administration address: Weinrufstrasse 38
55232 Alzey
Website : www.ortsgemeinde-albig.de
Local Mayor : Wilfried Best (FWG)
Location of the local community Albig in the district of Alzey-Worms
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Albig is a municipality in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Alzey-Land association.

Geographical location

The wine village of Albig is located in Rheinhessen and is largely surrounded by vineyards. Alzey is 2 kilometers south of the municipality.

history

Traces of Neolithic (spiral ceramics) and Iron Age settlement (probably by the Celts ) have been found in Albig. Some finds, including the fibula , ring and vessels from a late La Tène grave are exhibited in the Mainz State Museum. The foundations of a Roman villa rustica were discovered on a hill near Albig and, under the mistaken assumption that it was a medieval castle ruin, called " Schloss Hammerstein ".

Albig is mentioned for the first time in 767 in a vineyard deed of donation for the Lorsch monastery as Albucha in Wormsgau . A document from 1135 names the place Albecho , it now belonged to the Nahegau . The Albiger Liebfrauenkirche was first mentioned in a document in 962. The right of patronage belonged to the imperial abbey of St. Maximin in Trier.

From the 14th to the end of the 18th century, the place belonged to the Electoral Palatinate and was under the administration and jurisdiction of the Alzey District Office . In 1766 a chapel was set up on the ground floor of the town hall for the Catholic Christians. This combination of town hall and church is a specialty in the area.

After taking the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops , the region in 1797 was supported by France annexed . From 1798 to 1814 Albig belonged to the canton of Alzey in the Donnersberg department . Albig became the capital of a Mairie , which Bermersheim also belonged to.

Due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 and a state treaty concluded in 1816 between Hessen-Darmstadt , Austria and Prussia , the region, including the municipality of Albig, became part of the Grand Duchy of Hessen (Hessen-Darmstadt) and was assigned to the province of Rheinhessen . After the dissolution of the Rhine-Hessian cantons, the place came in 1835 to the newly established Alzey district , to which it belonged until 1969.

Population development

The development of the population of Albig, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents
1815 722
1835 1,053
1871 948
1905 1,061
1939 1,117
year Residents
1950 1,383
1961 1,296
1970 1,270
1987 1.317
2005 1,660

politics

The town hall of Albig

Municipal council

The municipal council in Albig consists of 16 council members, who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on May 26, 2019 , and the honorary local mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the municipal council:

choice SPD CDU FWG total
2019 4th 3 9 16 seats
2014 6th 4th 6th 16 seats
2009 7th 3 6th 16 seats
2004 7th 4th 5 16 seats
  • FWG = Free Voting Group of the Local Community Albig e. V.

Local mayor

The local mayor is Wilfried Best (FWG). In the local elections on May 26, 2019, he was elected with 82.06% of the vote, making him the successor to Günther Trautwein (SPD), who was no longer running.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided and shows the Electoral Palatinate Lion in the upper field and a stylized gallows similar to the letter A in the lower field . Further development of an Albiger court seal from the 17th century.

Parish partnership

There has been a partnership with the French community of Signy-l'Abbaye ( Ardennes department ) since 1975 .

Culture and sights

Regular events
  • Wine and Sunflower Festival on the penultimate weekend in July
  • Curb (parish fair) on the second Sunday in September
  • Albig is widely famous for a special Rhine-Hessian specialty, the Albiger cheek berry .

See also:

Economy and Infrastructure

Viticulture

The vineyard and observation tower "Auf dem Fels" tower

Albig belongs to the "Nierstein wine-growing area" in the Rheinhessen growing area . 24 wine-growing businesses are active in the village, and the area under vines is 345  hectares . About 72% of the cultivated wine are white grape varieties (as of 2010). In 1979, 77 companies were still active, the vineyard area at that time was 284 hectares.

Vineyards

The vineyards are on marl and limestone soils in the Petersberg area , which consists of the following individual layers:

  • Homberg , 52 hectares
  • Hundskopf , 141 hectares
  • Hammerstein Castle , 160 hectares

At the highest point in the Hundskopf vineyard stands the tower "Auf dem Fels" , a vineyard and observation tower that was inaugurated in 2001 .

traffic

In the village is the Albig stop , where the regional trains on the Alzey – Mainz and Worms – Alzey – Bingen (Rhine) Stadt lines stop.

The Alzey motorway junction is located in the Albig municipality . The next two motorway junctions are still a good two to three kilometers away, these are: Biebelnheim for the A 63 and Bornheim for the A 61 . On the western outskirts of the village, the federal road 271 passes the village.

Personalities

  • Philipp Jakob Mayer (born April 14, 1870 in Albig; † January 3, 1936 in Mainz), Roman Catholic theologian, vicar general of the Diocese of Mainz

literature

Web links

Commons : Albig  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
  2. ↑ Albib Tourism and Culture, accessed on March 6, 2016
  3. ↑ Denise Frommeyer: From the Romans to the present day portrait in: Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, March 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ a b State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
  5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Albig. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
  7. ^ The regional returning officer RLP: direct elections 2019. see Alzey-Land, Verbandsgemeinde, first line of results. Retrieved September 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Albig Homberg on rheinhessen.de
  9. ↑ Albig Hundskopf on rheinhessen.de
  10. ↑ Albig, Alzey Schloss Hammerstein on rheinhessen.de