sentences:  Other mentions rendered the name "Aldenkirchen" (1372), "Aldenkirch" (1410), "Allenkirchen" (1480) or Altenkirchen (1601), the current form.The local dialectal form of the name is "Ahlekerje".Within Altenkirchen's current limits once lay two other villages, both of which vanished even before the Thirty Years' War.