Mandel, Germany

Almond is a municipality in the district of Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland- Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rüdesheim.

Geography

Almond is located in the Nahe region, south of the Hunsrück, about five kilometers from Bad Kreuznach. Adjacent communities are Weinheim, Sponheim, St. Catherine's ( near Bad Kreuznach ), Roxheim and Rüdesheim.

History

The town was first mentioned as Mannendal documented in 962. Mandel was at the time an imperial fief of the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier. The Bailiwick had the game and Rhinegraves held. Property in Almond belonged with the basic equipment of 1101 of Sponheim Count Stefan donated the monastery of Sponheim. In 1439 the lordship was about almond in the hands of the family of Dalberg, and the eunuchs of Worms.

They transferred the village as a fief to the family of Koppenstein, a branch line of Sponheim, who called themselves after their family castle Koppenstein in the Hunsrück. Members of this family were long time as knights, clergy or officers in the service of various territorial lords, and the counts of Sponheim. Administrative headquarters and partly residence was the newly built castle in almond.

When the family of Kopp Steiner became extinct in 1768, the village almond fell to the feudal lords, the barons of Dalberg, back and was sold in 1786 with all rights to the Imperial Count Carl- August von Bretz home. 1801 Almond came in the wake of the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops to France. From 1815 to 1945, the town was part of Prussia.

Today's local coat of arms is derived from the Kopp Steiner family crest.

Policy

Parish council

The local council in almond consists of twelve council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman location. The twelve seats in the municipal council are divided into two groups of voters.

Mayor

As a local Mayor Karin Graff was chosen.

Historical Buildings

  • Evangelical Church, 1829/1830 built in classical style.
  • Evangelical parsonage, 1789/1791 built in the construction of early classicism.
  • Renaissance hunting lodge, built in the early 17th century by the barons of Koppenstein. The facade has a five-sided projecting stair tower.
  • Catholic Church of St. Anthony, built in 1897 in Neo-Romanesque style on a plot, the Freiherr von Salis - Soglio, descendant of Kopppensteiner, had gestiftetet.
  • House Dreher, House of 1594 with a sunken in the wall called " ridicule mask ", head of a servant with plastic cap.

See also: List of cultural monuments in almond

Klassizistisches ev rectory and church

Residential building of 1805, increased in 1860

Half-timbered houses from the 18th century

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Wolfgang Knauss, engineering scientist, Professor at Caltech
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