Nohn

Nohn
Coat of arms
Nohn
Location of Nohn within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates: 50°19′49″N 6°47′12″E / 50.33028°N 6.78667°E / 50.33028; 6.78667Coordinates: 50°19′49″N 6°47′12″E / 50.33028°N 6.78667°E / 50.33028; 6.78667
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Vulkaneifel
Municipal assoc.	Hillesheim
Government
• Mayor	Alfons Maas (CDU)
Area
• Total	11.07 km2 (4.27 sq mi)
Elevation	430 m (1,410 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	433
• Density	39/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54578
Dialling codes	02696
Vehicle registration	DAU

Nohn 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 both in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features and even ongoing activity today, and in the Kalkeifel, another part of the Eifel characterized by limestone (Kalkstein in German). The municipality lies right on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia and at the common point of three districts, Ahrweiler, Euskirchen and Vulkaneifel (until 31 December 2006 called Daun).

The nearest major centres within a 20 km radius of Nohn are Adenau, Blankenheim, Daun, Gerolstein, Hillesheim, Kelberg and Jünkerath.

The name “Nohn” is held to derive from the Latin phrase ad nonum lapidem, meaning “at the ninth stone”, that is to say, at the ninth milestone on the old Roman road between Trier and Cologne. This, however, cannot be taken as serious historical information, for in Roman times, Nohn had not yet arisen. Nohn had its first documentary mention about 970 as the location of a chapel.