Sankt Alban (Palatinate)

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	Coordinates: 49 ° 41 ′  N , 7 ° 52 ′  E
Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Donnersbergkreis
Association municipality :	North Palatinate Country
Height :	247 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.46 km 2
Residents:	277 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	51 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	67813
Area code :	06362
License plate :	KIB, ROK
Community key :	07 3 33 066
Association administration address:	Bezirksamtsstrasse 7 67803 Rockenhausen
Website :	st-alban.de
Mayoress :	Petra Becher
Location of the local community of Sankt Alban in the Donnersbergkreis

Sankt Alban is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate . It belongs to the Nordpfälzer Land association.

geography

location

Sankt Alban is located in the northern Palatinate mountains north of the Donnersberg between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach . The Hengstbacherhof and Untermühle residential areas also belong to Sankt Alban . Neighboring communities are - clockwise - Gaugrehweiler , Gerbach , Dielkirchen , Bayerfeld-Steckweiler .

Waters

The place is on the Appelbach ; In the middle of the settlement area, the Stößbach stream from the right and the Erlengraben from the left . In the northern municipality area, the former takes up the Dörrnbach from the right .

history

Saint Alban was founded by monks. Later it belonged to the County of Falkenstein and came with this to the Oberamt Winnweiler of the state of Upper Austria . After 1797 the place fell to France and was incorporated into the French Donnersberg department .

From 1798 to 1814, when the Palatinate was part of the French Republic (until 1804) and then part of the Napoleonic Empire , the municipality was incorporated into the canton of Rockenhausen . As a result of the Congress of Vienna (1815), Sankt Alban first went back to Austria . A year later it was added to Bavaria , where it became part of the Rhine district . From 1818 to 1862, Sankt Alban was part of the Kirchheim Land Commissioner , which was then converted into a district office.

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 , Steingruben became part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the administrative district of Palatinate within the French occupation zone. In the course of the first Rhineland-Palatinate administrative reform , the community moved to the newly created Donnersbergkreis, in which the Rockenhausen district was largely absorbed. In 1972 it was added to the newly formed community of Rockenhausen . Sankt Alban has been part of the Nordpfälzer Land association since 2020 .

Sankt Alban has received numerous awards in the competition “ Our village should become more beautiful ”. The millstone at Lindenplatz is reminiscent of the title "Most Beautiful North Palatinate Village 1985".

population

Population development

In 1840 the place had 65 houses and 478 inhabitants.

The table shows the development of the population of the municipality of Sankt Alban, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 are based on censuses:

year Residents 1815 305 1835 478 1840 478 1871 468 1905 431 1939 377

year Residents 1950 363 1961 342 1970 383 1987 290 2005 335

religion

Sankt Alban was designated as a Protestant parish village in the dean's office in Obermoschel in 1840 ; the Catholics were assigned to the Gerbach parish . In addition, there was once a Jewish cemetery on site. The Catholics belong to the Diocese of Speyer and are subordinate to the Donnersberg deanery , the Evangelicals to the Protestant Church of the Palatinate .

politics

Municipal council

The council in St. Alban consists of eight council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the volunteer local mayor as chairman.

mayor

Local mayor is Petra Becher. Her predecessor was Karl-Heinz Becker, who was in office from 2009 to 2014, before Herbert Wasem held this position.

Culture and sights

Cultural monuments

Monument zone Hengstbacherhof

→ Main article : List of cultural monuments in Sankt Alban (Pfalz)

The town center and the Hengstbacherhof are designated as monument zones. The latter combines old buildings with modern businesses.

In addition, there are a total of seven individual objects that are listed , including the historic chapel, which has been a Protestant church since 1911. They and three half-timbered houses, which are also listed, characterize the town center.

nature

There are two natural monuments in total within the municipality .

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Outside of the core area there is a bio-solar settlement with an information center for renewable energies.

traffic

The main part of the municipality is on the thoroughfare, state road 400 . The Hengstbacherhof is connected to the road network via Die Kreisstraße 26 . There is a connection to long-distance traffic via the A 63 in the southeast. In Rockenhausen there is a train station of the Alsenz Valley Railway . The 914 bus, operated by Behles Bus , leads from Sankt Alban and runs north to Alsenz .

tourism

The Appelbach cycle path also runs through Sankt Alban .

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Johann Christian Chelius (1797–1870), member of the Bavarian state parliament and administrative officer
• Jakob Brenneisen (1869–1947), politician (BVP), member of the Bavarian state parliament
• Wilma Klevinghaus (* 1924), author

People who worked on site

• Georg Rubler , 1792/93 member of the Rhine-German National Convention
• Johannes Kriebitzsch (1857–1938) painted the windows of the local church.

Web links

Commons : Sankt Alban  - Collection of Images

• Literature about Sankt Alban in the Rhineland-Palatinate State Bibliography
• Local community Sankt Alban on the website of the Rockenhausen Association
• Website of the local parish of St. Alban in the Northern Palatinate

Individual evidence

1. ↑ State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate - population status 2019, districts, communities, association communities ( help on this ).
2. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2018 ^{[ Version 2020 is available. ]} . S. 91 (PDF; 2.2 MB).
3. ^ ^{A b} Max Siebert: The Kingdom of Bavaria topographically and statistically in lexicographical and tabular form , Verlag Georg Franz, Munich 1840. S. 156 ( Google Books )
4. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - regional data
5. ^ The Regional Returning Officer RLP: City Council Election 2019 Sankt Alban. Retrieved August 25, 2019 .