Dohm-Lammersdorf
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Location of Dohm-Lammersdorf within Vulkaneifel district
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| Coordinates: 50°15′52″N 6°39′59″E / 50.26444°N 6.66639°ECoordinates: 50°15′52″N 6°39′59″E / 50.26444°N 6.66639°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Vulkaneifel |
| Municipal assoc. | Hillesheim |
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| • Mayor | Wolfgang Schüssler |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.54 km2 (1.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 390 m (1,280 ft) |
| Population (2015-12-31) | |
| • Total | 170 |
| • Density | 37/km2 (97/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
| Postal codes | 54576 |
| Dialling codes | 06593 |
| Vehicle registration | DAU |
Dohm-Lammersdorf 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 Hillesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town.
The municipality lies in the Kyll valley 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.
Dohm has an elevation of 398 m above sea level and lies at the foot of the now extinct stratovolcano Giesenheld (476 m).
Geologically, Dohm-Lammersdorf is at the end of the bunter-rich, so-called Bettinger Graben, which stretches southwards from Lissendorf in the north. Locally, its most striking feature is the relatively flat and broad Kyll valley, which at the edges rises in terracelike formations to elevations of more than 500 m.
Dohm-Lammersdorf’s two Ortsteile are, as its hyphenated name implies, Dohm and Lammersdorf. The former is slightly bigger with roughly 100 inhabitants, whereas about 80 people call Lammersdorf home.
In 1301, Dohm had its first documentary mention when the knight Fridericus von Daun (or Dohm) was enfeoffed by the Archbishopric of Trier with Castle Manderscheid, where he was to perform services. In the earlier half of the 13th century, one of his forebears, Heinrich von Daun, who had been a marshal in Count of Luxembourg, Duke Walram von Limburg’s service, had acquired the Luxembourgish lordship over Densborn, which included Dohm and Lammersdorf, right up until the time of French rule, as a Luxembourgish lower lordship.
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