Kelberg

Kelberg
Coat of arms
Kelberg
Location of Kelberg within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates: 50°17′16″N 6°55′14″E / 50.28778°N 6.92056°E / 50.28778; 6.92056Coordinates: 50°17′16″N 6°55′14″E / 50.28778°N 6.92056°E / 50.28778; 6.92056
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Vulkaneifel
Municipal assoc.	Kelberg
Government
• Mayor	Wilhelm Jonas
Area
• Total	24.62 km2 (9.51 sq mi)
Elevation	480 m (1,570 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	2,019
• Density	82/km2 (210/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	53539
Dialling codes	02692
Vehicle registration	DAU
Website	www.kelberg.de

Kelberg 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 like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat. Kelberg is a state-recognized climatic spa.

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.

Kelberg lies roughly 12 km northeast of Daun.

Kelberg’s Ortsteile are described in the following sections.

The municipality’s main centre is also named Kelberg.

This centre is named after the like-named brook that snakes its way through the village. Even in antiquity, the area was settled: near what is now Köttelbach once stood a Roman villa rustica.

The name Hünerbach means that this place was the only village in the Amt of Daun in the Electorate of Trier that lay behind (hinter in German, or dialectally hönner, whence Hüner—) the border brook (—bach) between the Electorate of Trier and the Electorate of Cologne, the Trierbach. In 1688, the village acquired its first chapel, which was replaced with a new building in 1925-1926.

This village’s name goes back to the description Zur Mühle, German for “At the Mill”, and indeed, near the village once stood two mills.