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Alf (river)
The Alf is a small river in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, a left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel, near Darscheid, east of Daun. The Alf flows south through Mehren, Gillenfeld and Bausendorf, where it turns east to flow into the Moselle at the village of Alf. Geography Course The Alf rises about northeast of Hörscheid in the Volcanic Eifel. From its source at a height of , the Alf initially flows in a southerly direction to the village of Darscheid, from which it flows to the east through the villages of Gillenfeld and Strohn. The next section of the Alf, to Bausendorf, is very winding; it then turns towards the east and cuts through the south of the forest of Kondelwald, passing the villages of Kinderbeuern and Bengel. Around beyond Bengel it changes course abruptly and swings north. A ridge prevents it from flowing further east unto the Moselle, here just away. After breaking through the Moselle Hills the Alf finally reaches the Moselle at Alf (Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strohn
Strohn is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth. Strohn lies south of Gillenfeld and the Pulvermaar, a local volcanic crater lake, on the river Alf’s left bank. Constituent communities The following hamlets and homesteads belong to Strohn: Altheck, Buchholz, Dornheck, Herrenbüsch, Sprink, Tannenhof and Trautzberg. Vulcanism The surrounding area is characterized by the Eifel’s vulcanism. Particularly worthy of mention is the Strohner Märchen, a small maar that has almost dried up (''Märchen'' here is a dimi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daun, Germany
Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the ' of Daun. Geography Location The town lies in the , a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth. Daun lies south of the High Eifel on the river Lieser. Found from 2.5 to 3.5 km southeast of Daun’s town centre are the Dauner ''Maare'', a group of three volcanic lakes separated almost wholly by only the walls of tuff between them. The town is home to the '. Daun is furthermore a spa town and has mineral water springs. Constituent communities The district seat of Daun has 8,514 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2005, counting only those with their main residence in the town). Besides the main town, also called Daun (4,264 inhabitants), the municipal area also includes these outlying centres (') that were formerly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Of Rhineland-Palatinate
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, "burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holzbach (Alf)
Holzbach is an – a municipality belonging to a , a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Simmern-Rheinböllen, whose seat is in Simmern. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Hunsrück in a landscape with slopes and hollows through which flows the Holzbacher Bach towards Ohlweiler, emptying into the Simmerbach. Some 0.60 km² of the municipal area is wooded, the main type of forest being mixed forest. The rural municipality of Holzbach lies 5 km from the district seat of Simmern. History In 1346, Holzbach had its first documentary mention. Archaeological finds from the New Stone Age and Roman times, however, clearly show that the land was settled long before that. Beginning in 1794, Holzbach lay under French rule. In 1815 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. In 1921, the simultaneum at the village church was diss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cochem-Zell
Cochem-Zell (German: ''Landkreis Cochem-Zell'') is a district (''Kreis'') in the north-west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Hunsrück, Bernkastel-Wittlich, and Vulkaneifel. History In 1816 the districts Cochem and Zell were created, after the area went to Prussia. In 1969 the Zell district was dissolved and its northern and middle parts were added to the Cochem district, which was renamed Cochem-Zell. In 2014 the municipalities Lahr, Mörsdorf and Zilshausen were assigned to the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis. Geography The district consists of three different landscapes. The Moselle valley with its vineyards, and the mountains of the Hunsrück in the east and the Eifel in the north and west. The highest elevation is the ''Höchstberg'' at 616 m above sea level, located in the Eifel. Coat of arms The German blazon reads: ''Schräglinks geteilt: vorne in Silber ein durchgehendes rotes Kreuz, belegt mit einem silbernem Hifthorn mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf (Mosel)
Alf is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel. Geography Location At Alf, the Alf, or Alfbach, empties into the Moselle. The municipality lies on the Moselle's left bank. The municipal area measures 6.33 km2, of which 0.67 km2 is vineyards and 3.79 km2 is wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Two neighbours are Bullay and Pünderich, both on the right bank. Constituent communities Alf's ''Ortsteile'' are the main centre, also called Alf, and the outlying centres of Höllenthal and Alf-Fabrik. The latter is historically an industrial centre, as its name suggests (''Fabrik'' means “factory” in German). Both these centres lie on the river Alf, inland from the Moselle. History In pre-Roman times, the place was inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moselle Hills
The Moselle Hills (german: Moselberge) form a ridge, up to , on the left bank of the river Moselle between Reil, Germany, Reil and Schweich in the Rhineland-Palatinate counties of Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich, Bernkastel-Wittlich and Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Trier-Saarburg. There are vineyards on the southern slopes of the wooded hills. They lie on the southern edge of the Eifel region. Geography Location The Moselle Hills lie between the village Reil, Germany, Reil in the northeast and the town of Schweich in the southwest and run past the wine village of Piesport northwest along the Moselle, the aforementioned settlements all lying on the river itself. Natural regional grouping From a Natural regions of Germany, natural regional perspective, the Moselle Hills belong to the major unit group, the Moselle Valley (''Moseltal'', No. 25) and in the major unit of Middle Moselle Valley (''Mittleres Moseltal'', No. 250). The natural regional sub-unit of the Moselle Hills ('' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kondelwald
The Kondelwald, also known as the Kondel, is a forest, about 2,500 hectares in area and up to , that forms part of the Moselle Eifel. It lies within the counties of Bernkastel-Wittlich and Cochem-Zell in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It used to belong to the imperial Carolingian estate of ''Kröver Reich''. Geography Location The Kondelwald is located east-northeast of Wittlich between the villages of Bengel on the Moselle tributary of Alf in the south and Bad Bertrich on the Alf tributary of Üßbach in the north. Its highest point lies between Bengel and the Hontheim village of Bonsbeuren about 750 metres as the crow flies west of the '' Waidmannsheil'' hunting lodge on the Reudelheck hill, near the road from Bengel to Bonsbeuren (Kreisstraßen 35 and 9). Near this point is a 77 metre high transmission tower (). To the south, at Bengel, is Springiersbach Abbey. Natural regions The Kondelwald forms the subunit of ''Kondelwald'' (270.2) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volcanic Eifel
The Volcanic Eifel or Vulkan Eifel (german: Vulkaneifel) is a region in the Eifel Mountains in Germany that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of this volcanic field are its typical explosion crater lakes or maars, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuffs, lava streams and volcanic craters like the Laacher See. The Volcanic Eifel is still volcanically active today. One sign of this activity is the escaping gases in the Laacher See. Geographical location The Volcanic Eifel stretches from the Rhine to the Wittlich Depression. It is bordered in the south and southwest by the South Eifel, in the west by Luxembourg and Belgian Ardennes and in the north by the North Eifel including the Hohes Venn. To the east the Rhine forms its geographical boundary, with no volcanicity immediately beyond it. The Volcanic Eifel is divided into three natural regions: * Volcanic West Eifel ( Manderscheid, Daun, Gerolstein, Ober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hörscheid
Hörscheid is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth. The highest elevation in the municipal area is the ''Kapp'', lying to the northeast, at 590 m above sea level. The village itself lies on a long ridge from which the land slopes down on either side. Falling away steeply to the north from the village towards the Hasenbach is a wooded slope; to the south are meadowlands that slope down to the Maubach. Both these brooks flow together in the west of the municipal area, whereafter the Maubach flows down to a place near Boverath w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alf, Rhineland-Palatinate
Alf is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Zell, whose seat is in the municipality of Zell an der Mosel. Geography Location At Alf, the Alf, or Alfbach, empties into the Moselle. The municipality lies on the Moselle's left bank. The municipal area measures 6.33 km2, of which 0.67 km2 is vineyards and 3.79 km2 is wooded. Neighbouring municipalities Two neighbours are Bullay and Pünderich, both on the right bank. Constituent communities Alf's ''Ortsteile'' are the main centre, also called Alf, and the outlying centres of Höllenthal and Alf-Fabrik. The latter is historically an industrial centre, as its name suggests (''Fabrik'' means “factory” in German). Both these centres lie on the river Alf, inland from the Moselle. History In pre-Roman times, the place was inhabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehren, Vulkaneifel
Mehren is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town. Geography Location The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth. Mehren also lies on the Autobahn A 1. Climate Yearly precipitation in Mehren amounts to 832 mm, which is high, falling into the highest third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 69% of the German Weather Service's weather stations, higher figures are recorded. The driest month is April. The most rainfall comes in December. In that month, precipitation is 1.5 times what it is in April. Precipitation varies hardly at all and is distributed evenly thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
