Lanzerath

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lanzerath (disambiguation) .

Lanzerath City of Bad Münstereifel Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 5 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	345 m
Residents :	99  (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	53902
Area code :	02253
Location of Lanzerath in Bad Münstereifel

Lanzerath is a district of Bad Münstereifel in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The place is east of the core town of Bad Münstereifel. The district road 52 runs through the village. The border to the neighboring state of Rhineland-Palatinate runs on the southern edge of the village .

history

A Roman signal system was discovered on the Hochthürmenberg to the south .

Lanzerath was first mentioned in a document in 1473.

On December 16, 1944, the first day of the Ardennes offensive , Lanzerath was captured by Wehrmacht troops. At the end of January 1945, Lanzerath was captured by US troops.

Lanzerath belonged to the independent municipality of Houverath until it was incorporated into Bad Münstereifel on July 1, 1969 .

Others

• The RVK line taxi 891 drives through the town.
• The primary school children are brought to the Catholic primary school in Houverath.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Hans Wijers: Battle of the Bulge, Vol. 3: The 3rd Fallschirmjager Division in Action , chap. 2 ( pages 6 to 21 )
3. ↑ Wijers, p. 186.
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 87 .

Web links

• Lanzerath on the homepage of Bad Münstereifel