Lissendorf is an ''
Ortsgemeinde'' – a
municipality
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belonging to a ''
Verbandsgemeinde
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Rhinelan ...
'', a kind of collective municipality – in the
Vulkaneifel
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district
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in
Rhineland-Palatinate
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,
Germany
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. It belongs to the
''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Gerolstein, whose seat is in the municipality of
Gerolstein.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the
Vulkaneifel
Vulkaneifel () is a district (''Kreis'') in the northwest of the state Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the least densely populated district in the state and the fourth most sparsely populated district in Germany. The administrative centre of ...
, a part of the
Eifel
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known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
Climate
Yearly
precipitation
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in Lissendorf amounts to 838 mm, which is rather high, falling into the highest third of the precipitation chart for all Germany. At 70% of the
German Weather Service’s weather station
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s, lower 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 minimally. At only 5% of the weather stations are lower seasonal
swings recorded.
History
Lissendorf lies on the former
Roman road
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between
Trier
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and
Cologne
Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...
(
Via Agrippa
''Via Agrippa'', is any stretch of the network of Roman roads in Gaul that was built by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, to whom Octavian entrusted the reorganization of the Gauls. In all, the Romans built of roads in Gaul.
Agrippa's project
Agrippa's ...
). Many sideroads favoured settlement in this area in
Roman
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* Rome, the capital city of Italy
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*Roman people, the people of ancient Rome
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times. Roman graves that have been unearthed confirm this.
Lissendorf had its first documentary mention in
Prüm Abbey
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The Abbey ruled over a va ...
’s directory of holdings, the ''Prümer Urbar'', in 893. In the
Middle Ages
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, a noble house named “von Lissendorf” was mentioned. This family never attained greatness outside this region, though.
Beginning in the 14th century, the village found itself in the hands of the
House of Manderscheid-Blankenheim. In the 16th century, the village belonged to the County of Gerolstein. In the time of
French rule, Lissendorf became the seat of the cantonal administration.
By the end of the 19th century, the local
railway
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, the ''Eifelbahn'' between
Trier
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and
Cologne
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, had opened.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by
proportional representation
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at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The 16 seats are shared among three voters’ groups.
Mayor
Lissendorf’s mayor is Rudolf Mathey.
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Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: ''In Grün das goldene Geweih mit Grind eines Achtenders.''
The municipality’s arms
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*Arm or arms, the upper limbs of the body
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* Ida A. T. Arms (1856–1931), American missionary-educator, temperance leader
Coat of arms or weapons
*Armaments or weapons
**Fi ...
might in English heraldic
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language be described thus: Vert a stag’s attires, each with four points, fixed to the scalp Or.
The noble family von Lissendorf, mentioned above, bore arms with this charge
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. the stag’s attires (that is, antlers) fixed to the scalp, but it was no longer known what the correct tincture
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s were. The municipality simply chose vert (green) and Or (gold).
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings:
* Saint Dionysius
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’s Catholic
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Parish Church (''Pfarrkirche St. Dionysius''), Kirchstraße 10, Romanesque Revival
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended to ...
aisleless church
An aisleless church (german: Saalkirche) is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways on either side of the nave and separated fr ...
, 1886-1887, sandstone
Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks.
Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
Gothic Revival
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memorial cross, latter half of the 19th century.
* Am Bungert 20 – ten-axis, one-floor ''Quereinhaus'' (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street) from 18(?)5 (third digit in inscription unclear), late 19th century.
* Bahnhofstraße – signal box
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“Lf” (“Lissendorf-Fahrdienstleiter” – Lissendorf railway dispatcher), oldest still preserved lever signal box using pulled cables on the ''Eifelbahn'', quarrystone walls partly with overhanging wood construction on the upper level.
* Bahnhofstraße 46 – two-floor solid building.
* Bahnhofstraße/corner of Wiesentalstraße – red sandstone Crucifixion
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'' Bildstock'' apparently possibly from 1613.
* Friedhofstraße – wayside chapel, plastered building from 1889.
* Friedhofstraße, graveyard – Gothic Revival red sandstone graveyard cross from 1876.
* Grausweg 5 – two-floor plastered building.
* Hauptstraße 21 – small ''Quereinhaus'' from 1829.
* Kirchstraße 33 – corner estate, bungalow from 1896; barn.
* Kirchstraße/corner of Burgstraße – wayside cross
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* ''Wayside'' (TV series), a television show based on the children's book ''Sideways Stories from Wayside School''
*A rest area
Places
; ...
, sandstone niche cross possibly from the 18th century.
* Roslay 2 – two-floor plastered building.
* Wayside cross, northwest of the village on the Burgberg, former Station on a Way of the Cross, red sandstone from 1872.
* Wayside cross, southwest of the village on the road to Steffeln
Steffeln 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 ...
, red sandstone
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Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...
shaft cross A shaft cross (german: Schaftkreuz) is a specific type of Latin or High cross, named after its method of construction. The majority of these external monuments consist of the cross or crucifix itself. The cross or crucifix is usually made of stone ...
from 18th or early 19th century.Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district
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Economy and infrastructure
Lissendorf railway station lies on the '' Eifelbahn'' (Cologne
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–Euskirchen
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– Gerolstein–Trier
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), which is served by the following local passenger services:
* the ''Eifel-Express'' (Cologne–Euskirchen–Gerolstein with connection to Trier);
* the ''Eifel-Bahn'' (Cologne–Euskirchen–Kall, and at peak times on to Gerolstein).
In Lissendorf, the historical Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway
The Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway was a non-electrified branch line that lay mostly in what is now the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Only a few kilometres of the line near Ahrdorf station ran through North Rhine-Westphalia, which was c ...
, known as the Middle ''Ahrtalbahn'' (“Ahrtal Railway”, Jünkerath
Jünkerath is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was th seat of the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Obe ...
–Lissendorf–Hillesheim
Hillesheim () is the third largest town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It was the seat of the former ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Hillesheim.
Geography
Location
The town lies almost in the middle, halfway between C ...
–Ahrdorf–Dümpelfeld
Dümpelfeld is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe aft ...
) branched off.
For all local public transport, three tariff systems apply: the ''Verkehrsverbund Region Trier'' (VRT), the ''Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg'', and for journeys crossing tariff zones, the ''NRW-Tarif''.
References
External links
Municipality’s official webpage
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