Pelm

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Pelm

Location of Pelm within Vulkaneifel district

Coordinates: 50°14′01″N 6°41′28″E / 50.23361°N 6.69111°ECoordinates: 50°14′01″N 6°41′28″E / 50.23361°N 6.69111°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Wolfgang Zaeper

Area

• Total

10.06 km² (3.88 sq mi)

Elevation

370 m (1,210 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

970

• Density

96/km² (250/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

54570

06591

DAU

Website

www.pelm.de

Pelm 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 Gerolstein, whose seat is in the like-named town.

The municipality lies on the river Kyll 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.

Pelm’s neighbours are Gerolstein, Rockeskyll, Berlingen, Dohm-Lammersdorf and Hohenfels-Essingen.

Pelm is notable for its connection with ancient history.

Unearthed to the west of the village was a Gallo-Roman sanctuary. It had already been widely destroyed by graverobbers by the time a systematic investigation was done in 1928. More recently, newer information was brought to light by a dig undertaken in 1986 by the Trier Rhenish State Museum. The trapezoidal wall that once bounded the hallowed grounds, whose greatest length is 65 m and whose greatest breadth is 42 m, was built of limestone. Inside is a Gallo-Roman temple with a cella and a passageway in which a limestone tablet was found as early as 1833 inscribed with a dedication to the goddess Caiva. The tablet mentions that a man named Marcus Victorius Polentius granted an endowment of 100,000 sestertii for the temple to Caiva to be built. This inscription has been dated to AD 124.

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