St. Aldegund,
a wine place with long history

Saint Aldegund was mentioned for the first time 1097 in a document as "Sanctam Aldegundam". A settlement at Roman time is proved by foundations of a Roman " villa Rustica " to the south of the place as well as an Early-Christian women's grave discovered in 1953 at vineyard work from the time Konstantins of the tallness, Roman emperors of 306 - 337 A.D.

The grave rescued valuable additions of glass and ceramics, under it a blue glass bowl in form of a Schiffchens as it was not found up to now to the north of the Alps in this valuable execution. Name giver of the place is the merowingische prince's daughter and abbess Aldegundis who lived in the 7-th century in Maubeuge in today's Belgium and worked and shortly after her cancer death was canonized.

Worth seeing in Saint Aldegund it are: For the first time 1144 recumbent Romanesque " old church ", for centuries pilgrimage place of the farmers of the surroundings mentioned in a document about the village to the cattle saint Saint Bartholomäus, to the church patron. To the valuable equipment belong a Renaissance altar from the workshop of Hans Ruprecht Hoffmann, " Christ in the rest " from 1522, a present of the abbot Nikolaus von St. Aldegund which worked in a lothringischen cloister, a smiths-iron pulpit, around 1650, as well as a spätgotsiche Madonna. Apse and church space decorate Late-Gothic paintings. The "new" parish church in the neo-Gothic style was finished in 1872 and is with an interesting Ausmalung of 1912, restores in 2005, decorated.

Worth seeing in Saint Aldegund the numerous half-timbered houses and town houses from the time are from the 15-th century. Saint Aldegund disposes over a well ausgbautes footpath net with many great views in the Moselle valley and on the Hunsrück heights. The "Moselle park" offshore to the village with cycle track and footpath along the Moselle and a camper parking lot is restful. The Saint Aldegunder winegrower invite to the visit of her cellars and to the wine test.