Albachten
Around 4.900 citizens live in Albachten on a surface of circa 13 km². The name Albachten goes back, apparently, to the legend of bishop Liudger, when he, visiting the village, found that the villagers were all drunk. He then called out 'These are all Baccants', when he had to leave the village without having achived anything. With this statement he referred to Bacchus as the god of wine and drunkenness.
Albachten was first mentioned in a certificate in the year 1142. The first church construction goes probably also back to the beginning of the 12th-century. Whereas the St. Ludgerus-church (named after the bishop Liudger) in neo-Gothic style, which forms the present townscape, was only built in 1884 and extended in 1977/78.
Up to the 2nd World War agriculture dominated mostly the village's appearance, which counts less than 1000 citizens. Only after the 2nd World War, started the change from a pure rural community to a modern suburb community of the town of Münster. On the 1st of January 1975 Albachten lost its independence in the course of the regional reorganisation and was incorporated into Münster.
