Ripsdorf

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Ripsdorf
Municipality Blankenheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 11 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : approx. 505 m above sea level NHN
Area : 18.94 km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53945
Area code : 02449
Ripsdorf (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Ripsdorf

Location of Ripsdorf in North Rhine-Westphalia
View from the south of Ripsdorf
View from the south of Ripsdorf

Ripsdorf is a district of the municipality of Blankenheim (Ahr) in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies on the plateau between the upper Ahr and Kyll on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate . On July 1, 1969, Ripsdorf was incorporated into Blankenheim.

history

Ripsdorf was built on the site of a Roman estate. Tombs from the Merovingian period bear witness to this early Frankish settlement . Ripsdorf was first mentioned when it was handed over to an ancestor of the Counts of Are in 1121. The village of Ripesdorp at that time already had a parish church, the patronage of which lay with the Steinfeld Abbey. 1203 we find the name Rypstorf , 1316 then Rypstorp and in the 15th century Rüpstorp . Gerhard von Loen, Lord of Jülich and Count of Blankenheim, bought Ripsdorf in 1457. The property, except for Vellerhof, remained in the hands of the Dukes of Jülich until 1725 . Through an exchange with Bleibuir , it then came to the Manderscheid-Blankenheim house , to which it belonged until the French Revolution. In the 16th century, the Metternich family was enfeoffed with goods in Ripsdorf. During the time when Ripsdorf was under French rule, it belonged to the Mairie Dollendorf in the canton of Blankenheim. The castle house of the Lords of Ripsdorf, already mentioned in the 13th century, went under early.

Attractions

tourism

The Eifel-Höhen-Route cycle path , which runs around the Eifel National Park , and the Eifelsteig (stage 7) lead through the village .

Personalities

  • Benedikt Johannes Reetz (1897–1964), Benedictine, Abbot of Seckau, Archabbot of Beuron, Abbot President of the Beuron Congregation
  • Johann Hack (1898–1978), politician

Web links

Commons : Ripsdorf (Blankenheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 99 .