Alzey

Alzey is a Verband free town one belonging to no Verbandsgemeinde inside the Alzey Worms district in Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It is the 4th largest metropolis in Rhenish Hesse, after Mainz, Worms, and Bingen. Alzey is one of the Nibelungenstadte towns associated with the Nibelungenlied because its miles represented in this work by using the character Volker von Alzey. Hence, Alzey is also known as Volkerstadt.

The earliest lines of agreement in the Alzey vicinity pass returned as some distance as the Neolithic. Alzey became founded as a vicus inside the Roman province of Germania Superior inside the lands surrounding Mogontiacum. The name Altiaia may want to nicely originate as the name of an older, pre Roman Celtic agreement of approximately 400 BC, despite the fact that the call's specific origins have no longer been passed right down to the modern-day. Over the ruins of the Roman village, which changed into destroyed approximately 350, a fortress, Castra Alteium, changed into built approximately 390. In 406 and 407, the Burgundians, together with the Vandals, crossed the Rhine and settled in Mainz, Alzey and Worms as Roman confederates.