Dollendorf


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.

History

Dollendorf was incorporated into Blankenheim on 1 July 1969.

Sights

  • Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist
  • 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
  • Dollendorf Castle ruins
  • Neuweiler Castle not far from Ahrhütte, below Schloßthal
  • Haus Vellen or Vellerhof, courtyard building from the 18th century with chapel and its own cemetery.

    Literature

  • Franz-Josef Außem: Die Pflanzenwelt in der Dollendorfer Kalkmulde in der Eifel. Cologne, 1994.
  • 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.
  • 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