Dahlem is a municipality in the
district of Euskirchen. It has the lowest population density and population of all municipalities of in the state of
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. It is located in the
Eifel
The Eifel (; lb, Äifel, ) is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Community of ...
hills, approx. 35 km south-west 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 ...
. The small medieval town Kronenburg is part of the municipality.
Geography
Dahlem is located in the northern Eifel region in the
High Fens – Eifel Nature Park
The German-Belgian High Fens – Eifel Nature Park (german: Naturpark Hohes Venn – Eifel), often called the North Eifel Nature Park (''Naturpark Nord Eifel''), is a cross-border nature park with elements in the German federal states of North Rhi ...
between
Blankenheim Blankenheim may refer to:
Places
*Blankenheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, a municipality in western Germany
* Blankenheim, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in eastern Germany
*Blankenheim Castle, a schloss above the village of Blankenheim in the Eifel mo ...
in the Northeast and
Stadtkyll
Stadtkyll 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, who ...
the southwest. The
Kyll
The Kyll (), noted by the Roman poet Ausonius as ''Celbis'',Ausonius, ''Mosella'', v. 359 is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate), left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel mountains, near the b ...
flows through the region from the
Glaadtbach. The
Heidenköpfe lie in the Ripsdorfer forest to the east.
References
External links
Municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia
Euskirchen (district)
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