Alsenz

Alsenz is a municipality in the Thunder Mountain district in Rhineland- Palatinate. It is the administrative center of the municipality Alsenz - Obermoschel, who also belongs. Alsenz is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a basic center in accordance with state planning.

  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms

Geography

Location

The place is in Alsenz Valley, which is part of the Saar -Nahe - Bergland. The municipality also includes the residential seats at the water house and Bahnwärterhaus Ohlbach.

Climate

The annual precipitation is 606 mm. Rainfall is low. They are located in the lower quarter of the detected values ​​in Germany. At 22% of the stations of the German Weather Service lower values ​​are registered. The driest month is April, the most rainfall comes in June. In June, falling 1.8 times more rainfall than in April. Rainfall is fairly evenly distributed throughout the year. In 30 % of the monitoring stations, lower seasonal swings are recorded.

History

Alsenz was first mentioned in 775. 1532 the Reformation was introduced in Alsenz. From the 16th century ( Permian ) were mined around Alsenz Permian sandstones. 1606 a coin was established in Alsenz. The representation of the mint design includes a lion, the wild and Rheingraf shaft, with both Salmen the county Salm and with a cross- bar rule Vinstingen.

The Jewish community built in 1765 and the late Baroque synagogue, which still exists today.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Alsenz consists of 16 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

The distribution of seats in the local council:

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: "Divided and split up of silver and blue; a front left inverted, red reinforced lion, behind a red reinforced golden lion; below in green, a broad silver wave beams ".

The 1959 approved coat of arms combines all former seal images together and thus represents the membership of the church in the history dar. It shows the lion of Veldenz and Nassau -Weilburg and the eponymous river Alsenz.

Culture and sights

In the center of the town is the Renaissance town hall, built in 1578. The building consists of a brick ground floor with round arch and truss upstairs.

The Palatine Steinhauer Museum, the Museum of Local History and the North Palatine Gallery also use spaces in the town hall. The nassau weilburgische Amtshof, built about 1780, which was built in 1756 former synagogue, and dating from the 18th century Protestant church characterize the village.

See also:

  • List of cultural monuments in Alsenz
  • List of natural monuments in Alsenz

Clubs

The largest club is the gymnastic and sporting community ( TuS ) 1884/1919 Alsenz V. ( Dept.: football, tennis, volleyball, women's gymnastics, karate ... )

Traffic

Alsenz is located on the main roads 48 ( Bingen - Bad Bergzabern ) and 420 ( Nierstein - Ottweiler ). In addition, the municipality has a station on the Alsenztalbahn, travel on the train to Bingen and Kaiserslautern. 1903 also has a railway line from Alsenz was opened after Obermoschel, but this was in 1935 closed again.

Train

The Nordpfalz school with approximately 400 students is the first notebook to school in Rhineland- Palatinate. As Elementary and junior high school plus the Nordpfalz school offers (short NPS) accounts of primary school, elementary and secondary school. From the 5th class pupils ( media computer science ) work with the school's laptop or PC in the lab as part of the two-hour MIF teaching. The school has in the context of an overall conference adopted the methodology by Klippert mandatory applicable. To this end, there is a perennial external training the whole team to the " house of learning ".

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Jacob Müller (1822-1905), lawyer, insurance salesman and politicians
  • Boyé Adolf (1869-1934), German diplomat, Foreign Secretary and Minister in Beijing
  • Wilhelm Frick (1877-1946), politician ( NSDAP), MdR, Minister of the Interior, Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
  • Charles King (1910-1979), politician ( SPD)
  • Hermann Arnold (1912-2005), social hygiene
  • Alfred Schrick (1919-2007) Ltd.. Ministerial and author, including co-editor of Alsenzer Dictionary ( 2 volumes, 1998)
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