Alsenz

This article deals with Alsenz, for the right tributary of the Nahe, see Alsenz (Nahe) .

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 49 ° 44 '  N , 7 ° 49'  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	224 m above sea level NHN
Area :	12.88 km 2
Residents:	1664 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	129 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67821
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 003
Association administration address:	Schulstrasse 16 67821 Alsenz
Website :	www.alsenz.de
Local Mayor :	Michael Rink
Location of the local community Alsenz in the Donnersbergkreis

Alsenz

Alsenz is a local community in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate and is the tenth largest local community in terms of population. It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association, which has an administrative office in Alsenz and one at the headquarters in Rockenhausen . Alsenz is designated as a basic center according to state planning .

geography

location

Alsenz is located in the North Palatinate Uplands , which is part of the Saar-Nahe Uplands , on the river of the same name on the border with the Bad Kreuznach district . To the north of the settlement area, the mosque flows into it from the left . The community also includes the Am Wasserhaus and Bahnwärterhaus Ohlbach residential areas . Adjacent communities are - clockwise - Hochstätten , Kalkofen , Münsterappel , Oberhausen an der Appel , Gaugrehweiler , Bayerfeld-Steckweiler , Oberndorf , Schiersfeld , Sitters , Niedermoschel and Hallgarten . Other neighboring communities are Feilbingert in the north and Mannweiler-Cölln in the south.

climate

The annual precipitation is 606 mm. The rainfall is low. They are in the lower quarter of the values ​​recorded in Germany. Lower values ​​are registered at 22% of the German Weather Service's measuring stations . The driest month is April, with most rainfall in June. In June there is 1.8 times more rainfall than in April. The rainfall is distributed fairly evenly over the year. Lower seasonal fluctuations are recorded at 30% of the measuring stations .

history

The menhir of Alsenz is a prehistoric testimony in the place .

Alsenz was first mentioned in a document in 775 in the Lorsch Codex . The Reformation was introduced in Alsenz in 1532 . From the 16th century, Permian sandstones ( Rotliegend ) were mined around Alsenz . In 1606 a mint was established in Alsenz . The depiction of the coin image includes the Wild and Rhine Counties with a lion , the County of Salm with both Salmen and the Vinstingen rule with a crossbar . The so-called rule Alsenz belonged to different owners over the centuries. In 1756 she came to Nassau-Weilburg , where she stayed until the end of the 18th century.

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , Alsenz was incorporated in the Donnersberg department in the canton of Obermoschel and was the seat of a mairie , which also included Cölln , Oberndorf and Mannweiler . In 1815 the place Austria was added. Just one year later, the place changed to the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1818 to 1862 he was a member of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner ; from this the district office of Kirchheim emerged. On December 1, 1900, the community moved to the newly created district office Rockenhausen .

From 1939 the place was part of the district of Rockenhausen . After the Second World War , Alsenz became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate within the French occupation zone . In the course of the first administrative reform in Rhineland-Palatinate , the community moved to the newly created Donnersbergkreis on June 7, 1969, together with most of the other places in the district . Three years later it became part of the Alsenz-Obermoschel community .

Residents

Population development

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

Population development in Alsenz from 1815 to 2017 according to the table below

year Residents 1815 1,141 1835 1,510 1871 1,589 1905 2.172 1939 1,726 1950 1,827 1961 1,869

year Residents 1970 1,908 1987 1,716 1997 1,860 2005 1,764 2011 1,684 2017 1,676

religion

The Jewish community built the late Baroque synagogue in 1765 , which still exists today. The Judengasse and the Jewish cemetery also remind of the community .

politics

Municipal council

The local council in Alsenz 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	WGL	total
2019	5	4th	7th	16 seats
2014	6th	5	5	16 seats
2009	7th	6th	3	16 seats
2004	7th	6th	3	16 seats

• WGL = Landfried voter group

coat of arms

	Blazon : “Divided and split above by silver and blue; in front a red armored lion turned to the left, behind a red armored golden lion; below in green a broad silver wave bar. "
	Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms, approved in 1959, summarizes all former seal images and thus shows the affiliation of the community in history. It shows the lions of Veldenz and Nassau-Weilburg as well as the river Alsenz that gives it its name .

Culture and sights

Buildings

In the center of the village is the Renaissance town hall, built in 1578. The building consists of a masonry ground floor with round arches and half-timbered buildings on the upper floor.

The Palatinate Steinhauermuseum , the Museum of Local History and the North Palatinate Gallery also use rooms in the town hall. The Nassau-Weilburgische Amtshof, built around 1780, the former synagogue built in 1756 and the Protestant church from the 18th century characterize the townscape.

See also : List of cultural monuments in Alsenz  and List of natural monuments in Alsenz

societies

The largest club is the Turn- und Sportgemeinde (TuS) 1884/1919 Alsenz e. V. (Dept .: football, tennis, volleyball, ladies' gymnastics, karate, Tae-Kwon-Do)

Infrastructure

traffic

Alsenz level crossing

Alsenz is on federal highways 48 ( Bingen am Rhein - Bad Bergzabern ) and 420 ( Nierstein - Ottweiler ). State road 403 and district road 25 also run through the village . In addition, the community has a train station on the Alsenz Valley Railway , completed in 1871 , on which trains run to Bingen am Rhein and Kaiserslautern . To the south of the station, the route crosses the Alsenz tunnel . In 1903 the narrow-gauge railway to Obermoschel was opened, but it went out of service in 1935.

Alsenz is also on the Alsenz cycle path .

schools

The North Palatinate School with around 400 students was the first notebook school in Rhineland-Palatinate, but had to close shortly afterwards due to a lack of students. Since then there has been a primary school and a technical school for social affairs (training to become a state-recognized educator) at the Donnersbergkreis vocational school in Alsenz. Children in secondary schools have to move to Rockenhausen, 12 km away.

Facilities

There is a children's and youth home on site, which is sponsored by the Evangelical Home Foundation Palatinate .

energy

The Alsenz wind farm is partly within the boundaries of the local community .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Jacob Müller (1822–1905), lawyer, insurance salesman and politician
• Adolf Boyé (1869–1934), German diplomat, State Secretary in the Foreign Office and envoy in Beijing
• Wilhelm Frick (1877–1946), politician (NSDAP), MdR , Reich Minister of the Interior , Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
• August Kopp (1887–1970), Protestant theologian
• Karl König (1910–1979), politician (SPD)
• Hermann Arnold (1912–2005), social hygienist
• Alfred Schrick (1919–2007) Ltd. Ministerialrat and author, u. a. Co-editor of the Alsenz dictionary (2 volumes, 1998)

People who worked on site

• Karl Steitz (1890–1966), politician (CDU), attended the Alsenz agricultural school

Web links

Commons : Alsenz  - collection of images

Wiktionary: Alsenz  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Website of the local community Alsenz
• Local history of Alsenz at regionalgeschichte.net
• Literature about Alsenz in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• The extraordinary pulpit of the Protestant church in Alsenz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ ^{a b} State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 140 (PDF; 3 MB).
4. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( information ), community boundaries can be activated.
5. ↑ Minst, Karl Josef [trans.]: Lorscher Codex (Volume 3), Certificate 1322, December 25, 775 - Reg. 1245. In: Heidelberger historical stocks - digital. Heidelberg University Library, p. 195 , accessed on January 31, 2018 . 
6. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: Local council election 2019 Alsenz. Retrieved August 28, 2019 . 
7. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Municipal elections 2014, city and municipal council elections
8. ↑ Klemens Stadler : German coat of arms - Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 2: The municipal coats of arms of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Bremen, Hamburg, West Berlin. Angelsachsen-Verlag, Bremen 1966.