Kaperich

Kaperich
Kaperich
Location of Kaperich within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates: 50°15′00″N 7°01′35″E / 50.25000°N 7.02639°E / 50.25000; 7.02639Coordinates: 50°15′00″N 7°01′35″E / 50.25000°N 7.02639°E / 50.25000; 7.02639
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Vulkaneifel
Municipal assoc.	Kelberg
Government
• Mayor	Hans-Werner Mendel
Area
• Total	2.69 km2 (1.04 sq mi)
Elevation	470 m (1,540 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	179
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	56767
Dialling codes	02657
Vehicle registration	DAU
Website	www.kaperich.de

Kaperich 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 Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.

The municipality lies 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.

Kaperich’s neighbours are Lirstal, Höchstberg and Uersfeld.

Kaperich has an outlying hamlet called Kölnische Höfe, which is home to roughly 25 people. This hamlet is sometimes also called “Pochtener Höfe”.

In feudal times, Kaperich belonged until 1794 to the Electoral-Cologne Amt of Nürburg. Under Prussian administration, Kaperich became a municipality in the Adenau district and the Amt of Kelberg, until 1932. After administrative reform in 1970, the municipality, along with others in the Amt of Kelberg, passed to what was then known as the Daun district; the same district is now called the Vulkaneifel district.

Kölnische Höfe, sometimes also called Pochtener Höfe, was built sometime about 1500. In 1741, the Uersfeld church books listed two estates there.

The name “Kölnische Höfe” goes back to the former Electorate of Cologne landholdings there (“Cologne” is Köln in German), and the popular name “Pochtener Höfe” comes from the hamlet’s location in the Pochtener Wald (forest), which had its first documentary mention as Puthena in 1050.