Sankt Aldegund

Basic data
State :	Rhineland-Palatinate
County :	Cochem cell
Association municipality :	Zell (Moselle)
Height :	100 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.16 km 2
Residents:	568 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	92 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	56858
Area code :	06542
License plate :	COC, ZEL
Community key :	07 1 35 076
LOCODE :	DE SAE
Association administration address:	Corray 1 ; 56856 Zell (Moselle)
Website :	www.st-aldegund.de
Local Mayor :	Günter Treis
Location of the local community Sankt Aldegund in the district of Cochem-Zell

Neef and Sankt Aldegund (background) with Moselle barrage and lock

Sankt Aldegund (or St. Aldegund) is a wine and holiday resort in the district of Cochem-Zell in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is halfway between Trier and Koblenz directly on the left bank of the Moselle . The local community belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Zell (Mosel) .

history

Settlement in the area of today's local community in Roman times is proven by the foundations of a Roman villa rustica south of the village and by an early Christian woman's grave from the time of Constantine the Great , one of the oldest Christian graves on the Moselle, discovered in 1953 during vineyard work . The grave contained valuable additions made of glass and ceramics, including a blue glass bowl in the form of a boat, which has not previously been found north of the Alps in this valuable version.

St. Aldegund was first mentioned in a document as "Sanctam Aldegundam" on July 11, 1097, when the Archbishop of Trier, Egilbert, confirmed a donation of goods to the St. Simeon monastery . In 1143 the place "S. Aldegunde ", 1193" S. Aldegundem ", 1208, 1295 and 1692 called" Sankt Aldegund ". The place is named after the Merovingian princess and abbess Aldegundis , who lived and worked in Maubeuge in the 7th century and was canonized shortly after her death.

The old village school, mentioned in 1523, was used until 1781.

In 1720 Sankt Aldegund had 33 households, of the 230,000 vines , 58,000 were clerical and 15,000 were owned by nobles. The Pfalzel monastery had the largest holdings with 20,000 vines.

From 1794 Sankt Aldegund was under French rule and until 1814 belonged to Mairie Eller in the canton of Cochem . In 1815 the place was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna with the previous canton of Cochem . Sankt Aldegund was assigned to the mayor's office of Zell in the Zell district in 1816, which belonged to the Koblenz administrative district in the Rhine Province (1822). Since 1946 it has been part of the then newly formed state of Rhineland-Palatinate . The current administrative structures were formed in 1968 ( Verbandsgemeinde ) and 1969 ( Cochem-Zell district ).

Municipal council

The council in Sankt Aldegund consists of twelve council members, who in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a majority vote were elected, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Worth seeing

First mentioned in a document in 1144, the Romanesque old church above the village was for centuries a place of pilgrimage for farmers in the area to the cattle saint St. Bartholomew , the church patron. The church is occasionally used for cultural events such as concerts.

The valuable furnishings include a "Christ resting" from 1522 (a gift from the abbot of a Lorraine monastery, Nikolaus von Sankt Aldegund ), a wrought-iron pulpit (around 1650) and a late Gothic Madonna . The apse and church interior are decorated with late Gothic paintings that came to light during the restoration in 1965.

The Renaissance -Seitenaltar from the workshop of Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann (with his monogram ), commissioned by the widow of Aldegunder bailiff Niclas Roltz (or Rultz) Kirch Brich ( Kirchberg ), the Gertruda Keiserin (Gertrud Kaiser), the daughter of Zeller kurtrierischen waiter , on the occasion of the death of her husband in 1601, had been sold during the profanation of the old church in 1870/72. In 1951 it came into the possession of the art collector couple Ludwig. When in the early 1960s the value of the church, which had previously served as a horse stable, warehouse and during World War II as a prison camp, was reflected upon, a contact was made which led to a contract with the parish in 1965 to donate the altar to a Contribution to the restoration of the church led. It was also agreed to build a crypt below the altar, which the couple wanted to use. Peter Ludwig, who died in 1996, and his wife Irene († 2010) are now buried there. Until her death, Irene Ludwig took care of the furnishing of the church, which was consecrated again in 1971.

St. Aldegund on the Moselle - neo-Gothic church of St. Bartholomew - panoramio

The new parish church in neo-Gothic style with its imposing 51-meter-high hexagonal tower was completed in 1872 according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect August Rincklake (1843–1915) and is decorated with an interesting painting from 1912, restored in 2005. It also contains remarkable furnishings such as a baroque St. Mary's altar (around 1750) and an " Anna selbdritt " from the 16th century.

Also worth seeing in St. Aldegund are the numerous half-timbered and town houses from the 15th century. The area between town and river is designed as a Moselle park.

Viticulture

Sankt Aldegund belongs to the " Burg Cochem wine-growing area " in the Moselle region . There are 24 wine-growing businesses in the village and the area under vines is 17 hectares . About 86% of the cultivated wine are white wine grape varieties (as of 2007). In 1979 79 businesses were still active, the vineyard area at that time was 71 hectares.

Vineyards

St. Aldegunder monastery chamber
St. Aldegunder Kingdom of Heaven
St. Aldegunder Palmberg Terraces

Personalities

Nikolaus von Maes (* around 1470 in St. Aldegund, † 1532 in Sankt Avold ), humanist and abbot in Saint Nabor
Franz Pauly (* 1837 in St. Aldegund, † 1913 in Düsseldorf ), landscape painter from the Düsseldorf School
Reinhold Schommers (born April 12, 1936 in Sankt Aldegund, † October 19, 2000 there) Director of Studies and local researcher

Others

Near Sankt Aldegund there was a radio transmitter of the former Office for Geoinformation of the Bundeswehr .

literature

Gerhard Schommers: The "Rultz Altar" in St. Aldegund: Gertrud Rultz donates the Renaissance epitaph by Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann for the Old Church. In: Yearbook for the Cochem-Zell district. 2009, pp. 33-34.
Gerhard Schommers: St. Aldegund on the Moselle (= Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 566). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection , Cologne 2018, ISBN 978-3-86526-121-2 .
Gerhard _Schommers: St.Aldegund-Dalliend-Bugramm, How it used to be. Seven tours through the village, vineyards and district. 2015, ISBN 978-3-86424-271-7 .
Gerhard Schommers: Interesting facts about St. Aldegund, then and now. 2020. (132 pages, without ISBN)