title: Albig
text: # Albig
  
  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.
  
  ## Geography
  
  ### Location
  
  The municipality lies in Rhenish Hesse and belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Alzey-Land, whose seat is in Alzey.
  
  ## History
  
  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.
  
  ## Politics
  
  ### Mayor
  
  Albig's current mayor is Wilfried Best.
  
  ### Coat of arms
  
  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.
  
  ## Economy and infrastructure
  
  Winegrowing is an important part of local economic life.
  
  ### Transport
  
  Within municipal limits lies the Autobahnkreuz Alzey, an Autobahn interchange. The nearest access to the two Autobahnen in question, though, is a good two to three kilometres away. These are Biebelnheim for the A 63 and Bornheim for the A 61.
  
  In the municipality is a stop for Alzey–Mainz and Bingen–Alzey–Worms (Rheinhessenbahn) Regionalbahn trains.
  
  ## Culture and sightseeing
  
  ### Regular events
  
  Albig holds a Wine and Sunflower Festival on the second-last weekend in July. There is also a kermis (church consecration festival, locally known as the Kerb) on the second Sunday in September.
  
  