Albig

Albig
Coat of arms
Albig
Location of Albig within Alzey-Worms district
Coordinates: 49°46′N 8°7′E / 49.767°N 8.117°E / 49.767; 8.117Coordinates: 49°46′N 8°7′E / 49.767°N 8.117°E / 49.767; 8.117
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Alzey-Worms
Municipal assoc.	Alzey-Land
Government
• Mayor	Günther Trautwein
Area
• Total	10.24 km2 (3.95 sq mi)
Elevation	216 m (709 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	1,625
• Density	160/km2 (410/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	55234
Dialling codes	06731
Vehicle registration	AZ
Website	www.alzey-land.de

Albig is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in Rhenish Hesse in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.

Traces of New Stone Age (Spiral Ceramic) and Iron Age settlers, believed to be Celts, have been found in Albig. Some finds, such as fibulae, rings and vessels from a La Tène-era grave, are displayed in the Landesmuseum Mainz. On a hill near Albig, the foundations of a Roman villa rustica were unearthed, and because it was mistakenly believed that they were a mediaeval castle ruin, they were named Schloss Hammerstein, “Schloss” being a German word for castle.

Albig had its first documentary mention in 767 in a document donating a vineyard to Lorsch Abbey.

Since 1975 there has been a partnership with the French municipality of Signy-l'Abbaye in the department of Ardennes.

Albig’s current mayor is Günther Trautwein (SPD).

The municipality’s arms might be described thus: Per fess, sable a demi-lion rampant Or armed, langued and crowned gules, and argent the letter A of the third.