Houverath is a village in the town of
Bad Münstereifel in the district of
Euskirchen
Euskirchen (; Ripuarian: ''Öskerche'') is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the district Euskirchen. While Euskirchen resembles a modern shopping town, it also has a history dating back over 700 years, having been granted to ...
, in the German state of
North Rhine-Westphalia
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Location
The village lies south of the town of Bad Münstereifel. The ''
Landesstraße
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'' 497 runs through it. On the edge of the village is the stream of ''
Houverather Bach'', which merges with the ''
Winkelbach'' and later, as the ''Sahrbach'', empties into the
River Ahr
Ahr () is a river in Germany, a left tributary of the Rhine. Its source is at an elevation of approximately above sea level in Blankenheim in the Eifel, in the cellar of a timber-frame house near the castle of Blankenheim. After it crosses from ...
.
History
Houverath is first recorded in 1190. At that time Houverath had already been in the possession of the
counts of Vianden for 200 years. Territorial sovereignty changed, a good 200 years later, to the
counts of Blankenheim. They had to step down in 1794 following the invasion of the French into the Rhineland.
At that time the villages of Limbach and Houverath formed a single juridical district. On 1 July 1969, the hitherto independent municipality of Houverath was incorporated into Bad Münstereifel.
Transport
The ''Linientaxis'' ("line taxis") of routes 828 and 802 of the Cologne's
RVK regional transport network run through the village.
Facilities
There is a Catholic
primary school
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and a two-group
kindergarten
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, run by the town. Local clubs have a sports and multi-purpose hall. The
parish church
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is dedicated to St. Thomas. There are 15 graves in the
war cemetery
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Definition
The term "war grave" does not only apply to graves: ships sunk during wartime are often considered to be ...
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One sight is the protected old St. Thomas Church which, until the consecration of the new one in 1913 was the parish church.
There is a carnival club with three guards. Below the village, on the stream of Houverather Bach, is the long-term campsite of the Cologne Camping Club.
Website of the Cologne Camping Club
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References
External links
Houverath at the Dörfergemeinschaft Am Thürne e.V.
Houverath on the homepage of Bad Münstereifel
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Euskirchen (district)
Former municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia