Oberalben

Oberalben is a municipality in the district of Kusel, in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Kusel.

Geography

Oberalben located in the Saar -Nahe - Bergland. The municipality also includes the living space Mayweilerhof.

History

The word " Alps " is probably of Celtic origin, meaning and points to the creek, the place toward which flows through Kuralb. " Alb " also means bright, shiny, and is also the Latin word " albus " related that "white" is translated. The ancestors took over the well used by the Celts name. The stream name was passed on to the settlement that developed at this. Until the 16th century, the 1387 first documented village "Album " was called before was prefixed to distinguish the place albums in the Steinalb ( Niederalben ), the syllable " top ".

From 1816 to Oberalben belonged to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was part of the canton Cusel in the Rhine district. In 1840 the city had 23 houses and 229 inhabitants. He was designated as a Protestant village and parish Ulmet was assigned.

The development of the inhabitants of Upper albums, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Policy

Parish council

The local council in Oberalben consists of six council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 by majority vote, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Coat of arms

The blazon of the arms is: " Azure, a silver slant right wave beams, the upper right intricated uppercase 'A' and 'V', bottom left rotbewehrter and bezungter, golden lion ".

In 1983 the coat of arms was approved by the district government of the Palatinate in Neustadt on the Wine Route. The silver wavy oblique bar represents the village stream, the Kuralb, dar. The golden lion shows the former belonging to the Duchy of Pfalz- Zweibrücken. The blue base is reminiscent of the previous situation in the county Veldenz. The letters " AV" Official Ulmet mean and refer to the zweibrückische Office Ulmet (also Schultheißerei Ulmet ), the top albums belonged to the late 18th century. The intertwined letters are preserved in sealing the office since 1753.

Culture and sights

The Emigration Museum Oberalben shows the background, the process and the settlement of emigrants. In particular, to North America migrated over 300 years from many people; among these were the ancestors of the legendary American baseball player Babe Ruth.

See also: List of cultural monuments in Oberalben

Economy and infrastructure

To the south, the A 62 in Kusel is a station on the railway line Landstuhl - Kusel.