Alken er en by i den tyske delstat Rheinland-Pfalz og er en del af Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz. Alken har 662 indbyggere. Stedet er en Ortsgemeinde og er en del af Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Mosel. Byen ligger ved Mosel og ovenfor byen ligger borgen Thurant.
Ifølge arkæologiske fund ser det ud til, at der har været en romersk bosættelse. Men landsbyen Alken er blevet nævnt siden det 10. århundrede. Omkring 1197 begyndte den welfiske rigsgrave Heinrich, hertugen af Braunschweig, søn af Heinrich Løver, at bygge en borg for at beskytte sin brors Otto IV's interesser i Moselområdet.
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