Albisheim is a municipality in the

Donnersbergkreis The Donnersbergkreis is a district (''Kreis'') in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Bad Kreuznach, Alzey-Worms, Bad Dürkheim, Kaiserslautern, Kusel. History The district was created in 1969 by merging the dist ...

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

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. It is part of the

Zellertal region The Zellertal is a valley region in the east of the North Palatine Uplands in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Its western part belongs to Palatinate (region), Palatine Donnersbergkreis, its eastern part to Rhenish Hesse, Rhenish Hessian ...

Geography

The village is located in the part of the

Pfrimm The Pfrimm () is a , left or western tributary of the Rhine in the Rhineland-Palatinate (Germany). Course The Pfrimm rises in the southern part of the Donnersbergkreis. Its spring lies in the northern part of the Palatinate Forest Nature P ...

Valley, known as ''Zellertal'', which forms part of the

Alzey Hills The Alzey Hills () form a region of low, rolling hills (geology), rolling hills, or ''Hügelland'', 275 km2 in area and up to , in Rhenish Hesse in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. From a natural region perspective they are part of the ...

. Neighbouring municipalities are Stetten,

Einselthum Einselthum is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the no ...

Zellertal Zellertal is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The villages of , Harxheim and Niefernheim form Zellertal. Zellertal is located in the eponymous region, which in turn is part of the Palatinate w ...

, Immesheim,

Rüssingen Rüssingen is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The municipality is located between Kaiserslautern and Worms around 4 km (2.5 mi) east of Göllheim. The landscape is part of the Alzey Hi ...

, Marnheim and Gauersheim. Besides the village proper, the inhabited places Bahnhof Albisheim, Heyerhof and Pfortmühle are part of the municipality.

History

Remnants indicate a

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settlement. In 835 the village was given to

Prüm Abbey Prüm Abbey is a former Order of Saint Benedict, Benedictine abbey in Prüm, now in the diocese of Trier (Germany), founded by the Franks, Frankish widow Bertrada of Prüm, Bertrada the elder and her son Caribert of Laon, Charibert, Count of Laon, ...

by emepror

Louis the German Louis the German (German language, German: ''Ludwig der Deutsche''; c. 806/810 – 28 August 876), also known as Louis II of Germany (German language, German: ''Ludwig II. von Deutschland''), was the first king of East Francia, and ruled from 8 ...

. It appears as property of Prüm Abbey in 893. In early medieval times it belonged to the

Duchy of Franconia The Duchy of Franconia () was one of the five stem duchies of East Francia and the medieval Kingdom of Germany emerging in the early 10th century. The word Franconia, first used in a Latin charter of 1053, was applied like the words Francia, Fr ...

Otterberg Otterberg () is a town in the district of Kaiserslautern in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate with about 7,350 (as of 6/2006) inhabitants. It is situated approximately north of Kaiserslautern. Otterberg is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemein ...

Abbey held properties here since the 11th century. Early on Albisheim became a

market town A market town is a settlement most common in Europe that obtained by custom or royal charter, in the Middle Ages, a market right, which allowed it to host a regular market; this distinguished it from a village or city. In Britain, small rura ...

. Until the 18th century the village was ruled by the

House of Nassau-Weilburg The House of Nassau-Weilburg, a branch of the House of Nassau, ruled a division of the County of Nassau, which was a state in what is now Germany, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, from 1344 to 1806. On 17 July 1806, upon the dissolution of t ...

and administrated from

Kirchheimbolanden Kirchheimbolanden is the capital and the second largest city of the Donnersbergkreis, in Rhineland-Palatinate. Situated in south-western Germany, it is approximately 25 km west of Worms, Germany, Worms, and 30 km north-east of Kaisersla ...

. After the

War of the First Coalition The War of the First Coalition () was a set of wars that several European powers fought between 1792 and 1797, initially against the Constitutional Cabinet of Louis XVI, constitutional Kingdom of France and then the French First Republic, Frenc ...

Albisheim was occupied and later annexed by

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with the

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in 1797. From 1798 to 1814 it belonged to the French Departement du Mont-Tonnerre. After the

Congress of Vienna The Congress of Vienna of 1814–1815 was a series of international diplomatic meetings to discuss and agree upon a possible new layout of the European political and constitutional order after the downfall of the French Emperor Napoleon, Napol ...

the region was first given to

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

(1815) and later to

Bavaria Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a States of Germany, state in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the list of German states by area, largest German state by land area, comprising approximately 1/5 of the total l ...

(1816). After

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

Albisheim became part of

(1946). Since 1969 it belongs to the

district.

Politics

Council

The

village council A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, borough counci ...

is composed of 16 members who were elected in a personalized proportional representation in the local elections on June 9, 2024, and the honorary mayor as chairman.

Heraldry

The coat of arms shows

Saint Peter Saint Peter (born Shimon Bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68), also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the Jewish Christian#Jerusalem ekklēsia, e ...

Culture and sights

Festivals

Every year on the third weekend of September the ("King's festival") is held. The tradition can be traced back to the year 1222. There is also an end of winter celebration, regionally known as .

Buildings

*jewish cemetery *houses along the main street (''Hauptstraße'') *Protestant church from 1792, *historic town hall, a

classicist Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greek and Roman literature and ...

building from 1832 *''Warteturm'' (first mentioned in 1551) Image:Judenfriedhof Albisheim 1.jpg, jewish cemetery Image:Wohnhaus Hauptstraße 51 1.jpg, ''Hauptstraße 51'' Image:Peterskirche_Albisheim.jpg, protestant church Image:Albisheim_town_hall.jpg, Town hall Image:Warteturm-2.jpg, ''Warteturm''

Nature

There are six protected natural monuments and two nature reserves (Saukopf and Osterberg) in the municipality.

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Albisheim is part of the

Palatinate (wine region) Palatinate (; ) is a German wine-growing region (''Weinbaugebiet'') in the area of Bad Dürkheim, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, and Landau in Rhineland-Palatinate. Before 1993, it was known as Rhine Palatinate (''Rheinpfalz''). With under culti ...

Infrastructure

Roads

federal road B47 bypasses Albisheim and connects it to

Worms The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is a taxonomic database that aims to provide an authoritative and comprehensive catalogue and list of names of marine organisms. Content The content of the registry is edited and maintained by scien ...

. The A63 can be reached 7 km (4.5 mi) to the northeast.

Public transit

Albisheim station along the

Zeller Valley Railway References External links StreckeninformationenFörderverein Eistalbahn e. V.– Fahrplaninformationen, Betriebsführung und Instandhaltung Infrastrukturbetreiber der Strecke Railway lines in Rhineland-Palatinate North Palatinate Palatinate ...

has not been served by regular passenger trains since 1983. Weekend-trains ran from 2001 to 2016. Bus lines 904 and 921 of the VRN serve Albisheim.

References

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