Raffelsbrand

Raffelsbrand community Hürtgenwald Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ E
Height :	500 m above sea level NHN
Area :	1.66 km²
Residents :	161 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	97 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	52393
Area code :	02429

Raffelsbrand is a district of the municipality Hürtgenwald in the district of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The place is in the Rureifel and in the nature park Hohes Venn-Eifel in the Eifel . Neighboring towns are Lammersdorf , Zweifall , Vossenack and Simonskall . From Raffelsbrand you can see far into the Cologne Bay and the Zülpich Börde .

The place consists of a U-shaped ring road, on which 31 farms were built, but not all of them are cultivated today.

history

During the fighting in the Hürtgen Forest in World War II , the forest was so destroyed that it could no longer be afforested and agricultural areas were created around Raffelsbrand.

On November 6, 1964, the then Federal President Heinrich Lübke visited the newly created Raffelsbrand settlement.

Raffelsbrand belonged to the Monschau district until December 31, 1971 . As part of the local reorganization (Aachen Law), the municipality of Hürtgenwald was created in its current size on January 1, 1972.

traffic

The federal highway 399 leads past the village . Buses BVR take lines 286 and 86 to the site. The place itself has no through traffic.

Worth seeing

In Raffelsbrand there is the first soil nature trail in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened on June 13, 2003 by the then State Environment Minister Bärbel Höhn .

Others

In the village is the youth forest home Raffelsbrand of the state enterprise forest and wood NRW .

Together with Vossenack and Simonskall, the town received a silver medal at the state level in the competition Our village has a future in 2018 .

Web links

Website of the municipality of Hürtgenwald
The youth forest home
WDR report on the location ( memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Raffelsbrand - description on the Vossenack.nrw website

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.huertgenwald.de
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 307 .
↑ https://www.radiorur.de/rur/rr/1520763/news/kreis_dueren

[1] ttp://www.huertgenwald.de

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 307 .

[3] ttps://www.radiorur.de/rur/rr/1520763/news/kreis_dueren