Niederöfflingen

Niederöfflingen
Coat of arms
Niederöfflingen
Location of Niederöfflingen within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates: 50°03′35″N 6°53′23″E / 50.05972°N 6.88972°E / 50.05972; 6.88972Coordinates: 50°03′35″N 6°53′23″E / 50.05972°N 6.88972°E / 50.05972; 6.88972
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Bernkastel-Wittlich
Municipal assoc.	Wittlich-Land
Government
• Mayor	Hermann Josef Clemens
Area
• Total	8.17 km2 (3.15 sq mi)
Elevation	379 m (1,243 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	443
• Density	54/km2 (140/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54533
Dialling codes	06574
Vehicle registration	WIL
Website	www.niederoefflingen.de

Niederöfflingen is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.

The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel at an elevation of 375 m above sea level. The nearest middle centre is the district seat, Wittlich. Niederöfflingen belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde Wittlich-Land.

Niederöfflingen lies in a transitional zone between temperate oceanic climate and continental climate with its attendant mild winters and warm summers.

Niederöfflingen’s history reaches all the way back to 785 when Charlemagne donated the villa … Officinus (Niederöfflingen) to the Abbey of Echternach. As early as 1179, the Abbey of Echternach forsook its holding of Niederöfflingen in Archbishop of Trier Arnold’s favour, thus making it an Electoral-Trier holding. Niederöfflingen was assigned to the Amt of Manderscheid and was part of the high court of Obermanderscheid.

In the Nine Years' War (1688-1697; known in Germany as the Pfälzischer Erbfolgekrieg, or War of the Palatine Succession), the Sun King’s (Louis XIV of France) soldiers laid great swathes of the Eifel country in rubble and ashes. Under the Treaty of Ryswick, the Eifel country was for almost a hundred years freed of French hegemony.