Blankenheim, North Rhine-Westphalia
Blankenheim is a town in North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ) in the district of Euskirchen. The main attraction of the state- recognized resort is the Ahrquelle in a basement vault of a half-timbered house from the year in 1726. The 8.000 inhabitants town has a historic center with a number of remarkable sights. Recreation facilities of the town are grouped around the castle pond. Nestled in the historic village center consists of the Eifel Museum Blankenheim.
- 2.1 Amalgamations
- 3.1 municipal
- 3.2 partnership
- 3.3 Crest and Banner 3.3.1 Coat of Arms
- 3.3.2 Banner
- 4.1 Museums
- 4.2 Structures
- 4.3 Tourism
- 4.4 Regular events
- 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Rail / public transport
- 5.1.2 roads
Geography
Blankenheim is about 27 kilometers south-west of Euskirchen on the western edge of the Ahrgebirges in the Eifel. The source of the Ahr is located in the medieval center.
Community structure
Blankenheim consists of the following districts:
- Ahrdorf
- Lommersdorf
- Ahrhütte
- Mülheim
- Alendorf
- Nonnenbach
- Blankenheim
- Reetz
- Blankenheimerdorf
- Ripsdorf
- Dolldorf
- Tube
- Freilingen
- Uedelhoven
- Hüngersdorf
- Waldorf
- Lindweiler
Climate
Four months prevails lovely mild climate and eight months early climate.
History
In the year 721 is mentioned in the certificate of incorporation of the Prüm Abbey, the name " blancium ". In the opinion of parts of the local historically active local historian today Blankenheimerdorf is thus mentioned for the first time in a document. In the document it says: " Quidquid nobis obtingit de blancio ". For instance: "We leave the monastery of our possessions in Blancium ". " Blancio " So this is the ablative of " Blancium ". Only later was hereinafter the name Blankenheim from " Dorff " over at the height of the settlement in the " Dhal ". In Eifler dialect they are called Blangem. As a result of the Peace of Luneville Blankenheim came as the rest left the Rhineland to France in 1801 and 1815 by the decisions of the Congress of Vienna to Prussia. Count Sternberg - Manderscheid received in the kingdom in 1803 for the loss of Blankenheim, Juenkerath, Gerolstein and Dolldorf as compensation among other things, the goods of the former monasteries Weißenau and shot Ried in Upper Swabia awarded.
Incorporations
On 1 July 1969, the former municipalities Ahrdorf, Alendorf, Blankenheimerdorf, Dolldorf, Freilingen, Hüngersdorf, Lindweiler, Lommersdorf, Mülheim, Reetz, Ripsdorf, pipe, Uedelhoven and Waldorf were incorporated.
Policy
Parish council
In the municipal election on 30 August 2009 was for the period 2009-2014, the following distribution of seats in the local council:
Partnership
Blankenheim is twinned with Zaventem in Belgian Flanders.
Crest and Banner
Banner
Coat of arms
Blazon: " The coat of arms shows a rotbewehrten and - tongued black lion in gold ( yellow), is above the center with a free-floating, fünflätzigen red collar tournament. "
The municipality Blankenheim has the right to bear a coat of arms, a seal and a flag (banner ) awarded with certificate of the provincial government in Aachen on 8 September 1971. The coat of arms shows the heraldic animal of the Counts of Blankenheim. It is modeled on a juror seal from the 16th century.
Banner
" The flag (banner ) is black - yellow - black in the ratio 1: 4: 1 striped lengthwise with the municipal coat of arms without shield just above the middle. "
Culture and sights
Hirtentor
Church of the Assumption
Parish church and castle of Blankenheim
Interior Parish
Carving in the church; Detail of a pew
Saint John
Museums
- Blankenheim Carnival Museum
- Eifelmuseum Blankenheim, a regional museum for natural history and cultural history of the North / West -Eifel.
- Guided exhibition
Structures
Above the village is the Blankenheim castle from the 12th century. It is now used as a youth hostel. As part of the government takeover of the Counts of Manderscheid on Blankenheim Castle in 1468 structural changes were made. Count Dietrich III. had a long-distance water supply build the castle, which had to be performed under the " Tiergarten " mountain in a tunnel to keep gradient. The tunnel is the only of the late Middle Ages throughout Europe known. The massive construction of the castle dominates the picture of Blankenheim.
The medieval town center offers remains of the fortifications ( Georgstor of 1670, Hirtenturm of 1404), some half-timbered houses and the parish church of St. Assumption ( completed 1505). Also worth seeing is the Grade II listed Chapel of the Cross.
Located in the center of the source Ahr was taken in the basement of a half-timbered house.
Tourism
- In the historic town center of Blankenheim is the source of Ahr (50 ° 26 ' 17 "N, 6 ° 38' 58 " O50.4380555555566.6494444444444 ) taken in the basement of a half-timbered house.
- In Blankenheim the distance footpath starts AhrSteig on the heights to the mouth of the Ahr in the Rhine at Sinzig.
- Tiergartentunnel trail with historical Tiergartentunnel ( Hiking trail with 2x 9.5 km )
- In about 30 km away is the famous Nürburgring.
- Due to the location of the bike path leads Eifel- altitude route and here started the 90 km long Ahr Cycle Route runs along the Ahr up to its confluence with the Rhine at Sinzig. He is also part of the Valleys route connecting interesting tourist destinations in the district of Euskirchen on family-friendly routes.
Regular events
- Seenachtsfest with fireworks on the 1st weekend of August
- Carnival: The Rose Monday Parade and the Blankenheim Ghost on carnival Saturday
- Carnival in Blankenheim
Carnival
Jecke Böhnchen
Economy and infrastructure
Traffic
Rail / public transport
Since the closure of the railway line Ahrdorf - Blankenheim, the only station Blankenheim is (Wald) today away from the village on the Eifel track Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein Trier. It is served by three lines of regional traffic.
The connection of the village center to the train station is repeated every hour by bus line 832 RVK. From the bus station opened in December 2006 in the town center there are hourly further connections to Bad Münster Eifel and in the rear districts. For many trips, especially on weekends, while the taxi bus is used, ie Trips are conducted only on tel appointment. To school transport more trips are inserted.
It is the rate of the transport association Rhein-Sieg and collective space border of the NRW tariff.
By Blankenheim the federal highways 258 and 51 as the lead bypass.
The Federal Highway 1 is still suspended between junctions Blankenheim and Kelberg, since the final was opened to traffic on both carriageways between the AS and the AS Gerolstein Kelberg on 31 May 2012. For gap closure, which is guided in the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan as a more urgent need now are still missing 22 km.
Born in Blankenheim
- Hermann von Manderscheid - Blankenheim (1535-1604) was Count of Manderscheid - Blankenheim, Lord of Juenkerath, Erp and down
- Franz -Josef Heyen (1928-2012), archivist, historian and philologist
- Dominic Sanz (* 1991 in Blankenheim - Freilingen ), pop singer