Dollendorf
Ortsteil of Blankenheim in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Dollendorf is a village in the municipality of Blankenheim in the district of Euskirchen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It gives its name to the surrounding limestone depression (Kalkmulde).
01History
Dollendorf was incorporated into Blankenheim on 1 July 1969.
02Sights
- Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist (14th-century tower; nave built 1732-1736)
- War memorial to the fallen of the First World War; inaugurated on 30 May 1926
- Typical farmhouses from the 18th and 19th centuries.
- Chapel of St. Anthony of Padua (on the Stations of the Cross between Dollendorf and Schloßthal)
- Dollendorf Castle ruins
- Neuweiler Castle not far from Ahrhütte, below Schloßthal (wall remains)
- Haus Vellen or Vellerhof (Clemens-Josef-Haus), courtyard building from the 18th century with chapel and its own cemetery.
03Literature
- Franz-Josef Außem: Die Pflanzenwelt in der Dollendorfer Kalkmulde in der Eifel. Cologne, 1994. ISBN 3-88094-745-7
- Johannes Becker: Geschichte der Pfarreien des Dekanats Blankenheim. Cologne, 1993, pp. 461 ff.
- Christoph Bungartz, Ralf Gier, Peter Scheulen: Von der Eifel nach Amerika. Auswanderung nach Nordamerika 1840-1914. Euskirchen, 2005. ISBN 3-935221-55-X
- Hermann Bungartz: Dollendorf/Eifel. Landschaft und Geschichte., 2nd expanded edn., Hillesheim, 1989
- Dollendorf. Bilder eines Eifeldorfes., Cologne, 1993
- Peter Neu: Rheinischer Städteatlas. Dollendorf, Bonn 1976
- Ernst Wackenroder: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Schleiden, Düsseldorf, 1932, pp. 98-108
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