Veldenz

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Veldenz

Location of Veldenz within Bernkastel-Wittlich district

Coordinates: 49°53′26″N 7°1′33″E / 49.89056°N 7.02583°ECoordinates: 49°53′26″N 7°1′33″E / 49.89056°N 7.02583°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Norbert Sproß

Area

• Total

14.41 km² (5.56 sq mi)

Elevation

170 m (560 ft)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

969

• Density

67/km² (170/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

54472

06534

WIL

Website

www.veldenz.de

Veldenz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the former main seat of the County of Veldenz, once a prominent principality to which belonged 120 villages and towns now in Rhineland-Palatinate and northern Alsace.

The municipality lies in the Middle Moselle region of valley country marked by even slopes and former oxbows of the Moselle. Veldenz is found on the Moselle’s right bank, but does not lie right at the water’s edge, but rather some two kilometres back from the river, under the outermost forests of the Hunsrück. Roughly 850 ha of the 1 441 ha municipal area is wooded. About 130 ha is given over to winegrowing.

Veldenz belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bernkastel-Kues, whose seat is in the like-named town.

Neighbouring municipalities are, among others, Burgen and Mülheim. The nearest middle centres are Bernkastel-Kues, some 10 km away, and Wittlich, some 17 km away. Trier lies some 45 km away.

Veldenz’s Ortsteile are Veldenz and Thalveldenz.

Veldenz lies within the temperate zone; compared to other regions in Germany, a very warm and sunny climate prevails here. In neighbouring Brauneberg on 11 August 1998, a record temperature of 41.2 °C in the shade, the highest ever air temperature recorded in the Federal Republic, was confirmed. Because of its location alee of the Eifel, precipitation from northwest weather systems is often kept away. Ongoing evaporation of water from the Moselle regularly leads to high humidity, which, especially in summer, makes at times for heavy and muggy weather, and which also brings many storms along with it.

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