Alsenz () 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 dis ...

district, in

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. Alsenz has an area of 12.88 km² and a population of 1,647 (as of December 31, 2020).

Culture and sights

In the centre of the village is the Renaissance village hall (''Rathaus''), built in 1578. The building consists of a bricked lower storey with round arches and timber-framed upper storey. The Palatine Stonemason Museum, (''Pfälzische Steinhauermuseum'') the Museum of Local History (''Museum für Heimatgeschichte'') and the North Palatinate Gallery (''Nordpfalzgalerie'') also use rooms in the village hall. The

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 ...

district headquarters (''Amtshof''), built around 1780, the 1756 former synagogue and the 18th century Protestant church characterise the village scene.

Notable residents

Wilhelm Frick Wilhelm Frick (12 March 1877 – 16 October 1946) was a prominent German politician of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), who served as Reich Minister of the Interior in Adolf Hitler's cabinet from 1933 to 1943 and as the last governor of the Protectorate ...

(1877-1946), Nazi official, executed for war crimes

References

Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate Donnersbergkreis Palatinate (region) {{Donnersbergkreis-geo-stub