Sankt Alban

St. Alban is a municipality in the thunder mountain in Rhineland -Palatinate. It belongs to the municipality Rockhausen.

Geography

The town lies on Appel creek in North Palatine hill country north of Mount Thunder between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach. The main section of the community is 400th on the through road, the main road

At St. Alban includes the residential places Hengstbacherhof and Untermühle.

History

Saint Alban was founded by monks. Later it belonged to the county of Falkenstein and came up with this in the upper office Winnweiler the country's leading Austria. After 1797 the city fell to France and became part of the French Département Thunder Mountain. As a result of the Congress of Vienna (1815 ) Saint Alban went from about 1816 to the Kingdom of Bavaria and was part of the canton Rockhausen in the Rhine district. In 1840 the city had 65 houses and 478 inhabitants. It was designated as a Protestant parish of the Dean Obermoschel, the Catholics were assigned to the parish Gerbach.

After the Second World War St. Alban was part of the French occupation zone and was incorporated into the newly formed 1946 State of Rhineland -Palatinate.

In the course of district reform Sankt Alban came to the newly created Thunder Mountain circuit in which the county Rockhausen, which the community had previously belonged, for the most part came up. Sankt Alban has won numerous awards in the competition " Our village is beautiful " get. The Millstone at Linde space reminiscent of the title of " Most beautiful North Pfalzdorf 1985 ".

The development of the population of the town of Sankt Alban, the values ​​from 1871 to 1987 based on population censuses:

Parish council

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

Culture and sights

The historic chapel is the Protestant church since 1911. You and three timber-frame houses dot the town center.

Outside the town there is a Bio-Solar- settlement with an information center for renewable energy and an energy trail.

The Hengstbacherhof combines old buildings with modern businesses.

See also: List of Cultural Monuments in Saint Alban

Economy and infrastructure

Take the A 63 in the south-east is connected to the long-distance transport. In Rockhausen is a railway station of Alsenztalbahn.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Johann Christian Chelius (1797-1870), Bavarian Landtag and Administrative Officer
  • Jacob cautery (1869-1947), politician of the Bavarian People 's Party ( BVP ), Bavarian Landtag.
  • Wilma Klevinghaus (* 1924), author
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