3 Albus. Only once has there ever actually been a priest from Landkern. This was Father Johann Peter Bast, born on 1 May 1881, but he entered the priesthood in the U.S. state of Kansas. Two estates now belong to Landkern. One is Esper, and the other is Dreifaltigkeit (“Trinity”). There are also three outlying centres, Neuhof, Meilenstein and Jorscheid, along with individual houses of Schöne Aussicht. All together, there are just under 900 inhabitants. Beginning in 1794, Landkern lay under French rule, and by 1800 it had been assigned to the canton of Kaisersesch. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Name The municipality's name was originally Kern, but since the 18th century, the name Landkern has been customary. Landkern was once also called Feldkern. Politics Municipal council The council is made up of 12 council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Mayor Landkern's mayor is Thomas Heucher. Coat of arms The municipality's arms might be described thus: Per saltire, first gules a wooden shoe Or, second argent issuant from the line of partition an abbot's staff sable, third argent a bear's gambe couped at the shoulder palewise embowed of the fourth armed of the third, and fourth vert a kernel bendwise of the second. The wooden shoe is Saint Servatius’s attribute, thus representing the church’s patron saint. The abbot’s staff refers to Brauweiler Abbey, which after Queen Richeza’s bequest in 1053 had extensive holdings in Landkern. The bear’s paw is a legacy from Klotten. The municipality was formerly part of the parish and high court district of Klotten, both of which bore arms charged with Saint Maximin and his attribute, a bear. The golden kernel is a canting charge, since the word for one of these in German is Kern, the municipality’s former name. The tincture vert (green) in this same field refers to agriculture, which is important in Landkern even today. The arms have been borne since 16 July 1980. Culture and sightseeing Buildings The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: Saint Servatius’s Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Servatius), Hauptstraße 9 – Gothic Revival