sentences:  In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Albessen was grouped into the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Kusel in 1968, with effect from 1 January 1972.Albessen remained, even until the most recent past, a village characterized by agriculture, and going hand-in-hand with that, the villagers themselves were by a great majority characterized by a conservative mindset.There were once quarrymen, coalminers and ironworkers – the two last working in the Saarland – but also farmhands in the often huge agricultural operations.