Strohn

Strohn
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Strohn
Location of Strohn within Vulkaneifel district
Coordinates: 50°6′37.34″N 6°55′20.98″E / 50.1103722°N 6.9224944°E / 50.1103722; 6.9224944Coordinates: 50°6′37.34″N 6°55′20.98″E / 50.1103722°N 6.9224944°E / 50.1103722; 6.9224944
Country	Germany
State	Rhineland-Palatinate
District	Vulkaneifel
Municipal assoc.	Daun
Government
• Mayor	Alois Pohlen
Area
• Total	8.60 km2 (3.32 sq mi)
Elevation	390 m (1,280 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	513
• Density	60/km2 (150/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	54558
Dialling codes	06573
Vehicle registration	DAU
Website	www.strohn.de

Strohn 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 Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town.

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.

Strohn lies south of Gillenfeld and the Pulvermaar, a local volcanic crater lake, on the river Alf’s left bank.

The following hamlets and homesteads belong to Strohn: Altheck, Buchholz, Dornheck, Herrenbüsch, Sprink, Tannenhof and Trautzberg.

The surrounding area is characterized by the Eifel’s vulcanism. Particularly worthy of mention is the Strohner Märchen, a small maar that has almost dried up (Märchen here is a diminutive of Maar, not the German word for “fairy tale”). It came into being about 8,100 years ago through a side eruption of the Römerberg, a local cinder cone. Together with the Pulvermaar and the Römerberg, it forms a nature conservation area, which became protected in 1984.

In the village itself sits a lava bomb, a basalt globe formed by volcanic activity. It has a diameter of some five metres and a weight of more than 120 metric tons. It formed not through a single expulsion from the volcanic vent, but rather by being shot upwards several times and then sliding back down into the crater, getting a new coating of lava and cinder each time until it got stuck at the edge of the crater and cooled permanently. It came to light in 1969 during blasting at a quarry on the volcanic cone, and in the winter of 1980 and 1981 was towed on an iron plate over a compacted layer of snow with a bulldozer into the village centre.