Nohn is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a

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belonging to a ''

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'', a kind of collective municipality – 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 ...

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Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

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. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Gerolstein, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Geography

The municipality lies both in the

, a part of 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 ...

known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features and even ongoing activity today, and in the Kalkeifel, another part of the Eifel characterized by

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(''Kalkstein'' in

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). The municipality lies right on the boundary with

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

and at the common point of three districts,

Ahrweiler Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler () is a spa town in the German Bundesland of Rhineland-Palatinate that serves as the capital of the Ahrweiler district. The A61 motorway connects the town with cities like Cologne and Mainz. Formed by the merging of the ...

, Euskirchen and Vulkaneifel (until 31 December 2006 called Daun). The nearest major centres within a 20 km radius of Nohn are Adenau,

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Daun 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, geog ...

, Gerolstein, Hillesheim, Kelberg and Jünkerath.

History

The name “Nohn” is held to derive from the

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phrase ''ad nonum lapidem'', meaning “at the ninth stone”, that is to say, at the ninth milestone on the old

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between

Trier Trier ( , ; lb, Tréier ), formerly known in English as Trèves ( ;) and Triers (see also names in other languages), is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. It lies in a valley between low vine-covered hills of red sandstone in the ...

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 ...

. This, however, cannot be taken as serious historical information, for in

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times, Nohn had not yet arisen. Nohn had its first documentary mention about 970 as the location of a

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. In

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times, Nohn belonged to the Electoral-Trier ''

Amt Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...

'' of Daun. The knightly seat at Nohn was held for several centuries by the Lords of Hillesheim. The municipality's and the church's patron saint is Saint Martin. This gives a clue as to a long church tradition in the village. As early as 970, a chapel in Nohn was named. Until 30 September 1932, the municipality belonged to the Adenau district. This district, however, was abolished in the course of administrative reform. From 1 October 1932 to 6 November 1970, Nohn was part of the Ahrweiler district, and since 7 November 1970 it has belonged to the Daun district, whose name was changed on 1 January 2007 to Vulkaneifel.

Politics

Municipal council

The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by

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. The ''Kapelle Noyn'' (“Nohn Chapel”) supposedly once belonged to the Abbey, according to a falsified, but presumably factually correct, document from 970. There is a further clue to a relationship between the two in a reference from 1759 that names the Abbey as the body with

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rights to the village. The lower half of the arms is charged with a sword, Saint Martin's attribute, thus representing the municipality's and the church's patron saint.

Culture and sightseeing

The Nohner

The ''Nohner'' is a

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built as part of a limited series in the early 1920s by the Brothers Hoffmann in Nohn. The one on display on the premises of the firm Hoffmann-Reisen is the only one of these vehicles still in existence. It is driven by a

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Villiers

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. In 2005 and 2006, the Nohner was driven in the fourth and fifth

Bad Münstereifel Bad Münstereifel () is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen, Germany, with about 17,000 inhabitants, situated in the far southwest of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The little town is one of only a few historical to ...

Ernst Neumann-Neander Memorial Roadtrip.

Buildings

The Nohn parish church was built by Brother Nick from

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as an

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in 1781. The tower has its beginnings in the 16th century. The church is consecrated to

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. The

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building has a high

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from the earlier half of the 17th century that, although altered a number of times, is still in very much its original condition. The

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s and the

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come from the 18th century. The

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was installed in 1868; it had been built in 1720 and used elsewhere. Before coming to Nohn, it had been at Saint Mathias's Abbey. In the abutting graveyard stands a

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'' Bildstock'' from 1741. The church's entrance door, flanked by lions, bears a warriors’ memorial to the dead of the

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.Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz (Hrsg.):
Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler Kreis Vulkaneifel
' (PDF; 1,0 MB). Koblenz 2010, S. 22 Other listed buildings and structures in the municipality include the following: * Bergstraße 10 – building with roof with half-hipped gables from 1802. * Hauptstraße 33 – one-floor

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house, partly solid, with knee wall, possibly 18th century. * Hauptstraße 38 – estate along street from 1807 (or perhaps 1804 – the last digit is unclear). * Kirchstraße/corner of Zur Ley – wayside chapel, plastered building from 1861. * Kirchstraße/corner of Hauptstraße –

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'' Bildstock''. * Ob der Insel 2 – timber-frame estate complex. * Zur Ley 2 – house or residential part of an estate complex from 1816 (?), red sandstone gateway. * Zur Ley 3 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, sided, 18th/19th century. * Nohner Mühle, southwest of the village on the Ahbach – former gristmill; house, 1778, barn, partly timber-frame from 1804. * Wayside chapel near the Nohner Mühle, plastered building apparently from 1804.Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district
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Tourism

The municipality lies at the northeastern edge of the Hillesheim holiday region in the Vulkaneifel

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, but is also surrounded by the Blankenheim an der Ahrquelle, Hocheifel-Nürburgring and Kelberg holiday regions. Given its favourable central location, Nohn is an ideal starting point for outings in all these holiday regions or to other points of interest in the

. Through the municipality runs the “Geo-Path” of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Hillesheim, a local hiking loop as well as one of the

Eifel Club The Eifel Club (german: Eifelverein) is one of the largest rambling clubs in Germany with a membership of 28.000. Its purpose is the "maintenance of local customs, the protection and care of monuments to which it is particularly committed". Th ...

's hiking trails. Through the nearby Ahbach valley run the well known ''Eifel-Krimi-Wanderweg'' (“Eifel Crime Fiction Hiking Trail”), the ''

Eifelsteig The Eifelsteig is a long-distance hiking trail in the Eifel, Germany. It leads in 15 stages of from the Aachen district Kornelimünster to Trier and is maintained by the Eifel Club. File:Eifelsteig Kornelimünster.JPG, Kornelimünster Kor ...

'' and the two cycle paths ''Kalkeifel-Radweg'' and ''Mineralquellen-Route'', the latter's name referring to mineral

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Nearby points of interest

Worth seeing are a natural monument lying in the Üxheim-Ahütte municipal area, the Dreimühlen Waterfall, which draws its name from the nearby ruin of Dreimühlen, a

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deposit on the Nohner Bach, the

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in the Üxheim-Niederehe municipal area (on the road from Nohn to Stroheich), the

crags in the Ahbach valley and the ruin of Neublankenheim near Üxheim-Ahütte. Cycle paths in the area are the ''Ahrtal-Radweg'', the ''Kalkeifel-Radweg'' and the mountain bike path for cross-country riders that leads around the

Nürburgring The is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long "North loop" track, built in the 1920s, around the village a ...

Economy and infrastructure

Transport

It is only a few kilometres over ''Landesstraße'' (State Road) 10 or 167 to ''

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'' 258 (

Aachen Aachen ( ; ; Aachen dialect: ''Oche'' ; French and traditional English: Aix-la-Chapelle; or ''Aquisgranum''; nl, Aken ; Polish: Akwizgran) is, with around 249,000 inhabitants, the 13th-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, and the 28th ...

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman military post by Drusus around 8 B.C. Its nam ...

), over ''Landesstraße'' 68 to ''Bundesstraße'' 421 (

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border-

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) or ''Landesstraße'' 70 to ''Bundesstraße'' 410 (

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ish border-

Mayen Mayen is a town in the Mayen-Koblenz District of the Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State of Germany, in the eastern part of the Volcanic Eifel Region. As well as the main town, additional settlements include Alzheim, Kürrenberg, Hausen-Betzing, ...

). After A 1 is completed between the Blankenheim and Gerolstein interchanges, the municipality will be reachable through the ''Adenau'' interchange.

Businesses

In the village centre is a small

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with a

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’s shop. Not far from the village square is a small beverage dealer's shop. Also, there are two auto workshops/dealerships as well as an

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’s business. On the village's outskirts (towards Adenau) are a woodworking business, a street improvement business and a bus company with a

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. Several times each week, Nohn is visited by vending trucks selling baked goods and foods.

References

External links

Municipality’s official webpage

The Nohner

Eifelkrimi-Wanderweg

Eifelsteig
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