Alendorf

This article covers the district in North Rhine-Westphalia. See also: Ahlendorf and Allendorf .

Alendorf Municipality Blankenheim Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 8 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 15"  E
Height :	465 m above sea level NHN
Area :	6.34 km²
Residents :	265  (2015)
Population density :	42 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53945
Area code :	02449
Location of Alendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia

Church in Alendorf (painting by Fritz von Wille )

Alendorf in light November fog

The juniper heather in the Lampert Valley

Alendorf is a district of the municipality of Blankenheim in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Alendorf is located on a plateau south of Blankenheim. District road 43 runs through the village . The Odenbach flows into the Lampertsbach in the village .

history

A Roman settlement was discovered on the old Roman road from Jünkerath to Blankenheim. Then the Franks settled in the region . Alendorf was first mentioned in a document in 1271. At that time the place was called Aldindorph . It is not clear whether this name is derived from the old village or the village of Aldo .

Alendorf is one of the oldest parishes in the dean's office in Blankenheim in the Archdiocese of Cologne and is listed as Aldendorp in the first official parish and church directory in the 13th century .

On July 1, 1969, Alendorf was incorporated into Blankenheim.

Sightseeing and tourism

See also : List of architectural monuments in Blankenheim (Ahr)

• The old church dates from 1494. It was renovated in 1964 and is a listed building .
• The war cemetery of Blankenheim-Alendorf is also located in the cemetery of the old church . It was created in 1948 as Kriegerehrenmal and in 1966 at the initiative of the German War Graves Commission to the war cemetery rebuilt.
• The 650 hectare nature reserve Lampertstal and Alendorfer Kalktrifte with Fuhrbach and Mackental begins near the village . It is the largest juniper reserve in North Rhine-Westphalia. In 1953, the responsible authority placed the Kalktrifte in the Alendorf district under protection. On the Kalvarienberg ( 522.8  m above sea level ), the Hammersberg ( 530  m ) and the Eierberg ( 548  m ), plants of great rarity have developed on the calcareous subsoil.
• The Eifel-Höhen-Route cycle path , which runs around the Eifel National Park , leads through the village .

Web links

Commons : Alendorf  - Collection of Images

• The Lampertstal. In: Eifel.de
• Almost like Italy: Through the Lampert Valley to the Kalvarienberg. In: Koeln.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alendorf ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB  456219528 , p. 99 .
3. ^ "Lampertstal and Alendorfer Kalktriften" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia