Kalenborn-Scheuern

Kalenborn-Scheuern 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 Gerolstein, 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.

Constituent communities

Kalenborn-Scheuern’s ''Ortsteile'' are, as its name implies, Kalenborn and Scheuern.

History

In 893, Kalenborn had its first documentary mention in Prüm Abbey’s directory of holdings, the ''Prümer Urbar'', as ''de Caldebrunna''

The municipality of Kalenborn was newly founded from the dissolved municipalities of Kalenborn and Scheuern on 7 June 1969. On 1 December of that same year, the name was changed to Kalenborn-Scheuern.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess gules three ears of wheat, the dexter bendwise, the middle palewise and the sinister bendwise sinister Or, and argent a well with a roof and pail azure.

The three ears of wheat are, in a roundabout way, canting for the name “Scheuern”. Scheuern was, along with other neighbouring places, subject to tithing by Prüm Abbey, and indeed, the Abbey’s tithe barn stood in Scheuern, which drew its name from the building: ''Scheuer'' is Eifel dialect for what in High German is called a ''Scheune'' – a barn. Moreover, the ears of wheat also stand for the double municipality’s centuries-long root source of income, agriculture, and its rural structure. The charge below the line of partition is likewise canting. It stands for the name “Kalenborn”, which is held to have come from words meaning “cold well” or “cool spring” (the old form, ''Caldebrunna'', is closer to the Modern High German words for this: ''kalter Brunnen''). The blue well is meant to represent this graphically.

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings

Kalenborn

* Saint Ignatius’s and Saint Wendelin’s Catholic Chapel (branch chapel; ''Filialkapelle St. Ignatius und St. Wendelin''), small aisleless church from 1552 and 1642.
* Hauptstraße, graveyard, warriors’ memorial 1914-1918, possibly expanded after the Second World War.

Scheuern

* Saint Lawrence’s and Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church (branch church; ''Filialkirche St. Laurentius und St. Matthias''), Hauptstraße, small Gothicized aisleless church, 1629.
* Hillesheimer Straße 13 – stately Baroque house, late 18th/early 19th century, oven porch.
* Wayside chapel, north of Scheuern, aisleless, 18th/19th century, Gothic Revival altar, red sandstone shaft cross from 1695.Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district
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Economy and infrastructure

Transport

Kalenborn-Scheuern lies in the ''Verkehrsverbund Region Trier'' (VRT), whose fares therefore apply. The municipality is served on weekdays by bus route 522 of the ''Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft'' linking the double village with the nearest town, Gerolstein, as well as with Hillesheim. The nearest railway station is Oberbettingen-Hillesheim on the ''Eifelbahn'' (Cologne–Euskirchen–Gerolstein–Trier) some 5 km to the northeast.

''Bundesstraße'' 410 (Prüm–Mayen) lies some 6 km to the south, and ''Bundesstraße'' 421 (Stadtkyll–Daun) at the same distance to the northeast. The nearest Autobahn interchange is ''Prüm'' on the A 60 some 20 km to the southwest.

References

External links

Municipality’s official webpage

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Municipalities in Rhineland-Palatinate
Vulkaneifel