Gerolstein
Gerolstein () is a town in the Vulkaneifel district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Gerolstein is a local municipality of the Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein. It has been approved as a Luftkurort (spa town).
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.image_photo
- Burg lissingen start.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- Lissingen Castle
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Gerolstein COA.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Gerolstein in DAU.svg
- German location.state
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- German location.district
- Vulkaneifel
- German location.Verbandsgemeinde
- Gerolstein
- German location.elevation
- 358
- German location.area
- 64.43
- German location.postal_code
- 54568
- German location.area_code
- 06591
Article
35 sectionsContents
- History
- Bewingen
- Büscheich-Niedereich
- Politics
- Constituent communities
- Town council
- Mayor
- Amalgamations
- Coat of arms
- Town partnerships
- Transportation and economy
- Transport
- Established businesses
- Bundeswehr
- Culture and sightseeing
- Buildings
- Main town
- Bewingen
- Büscheich
- Gees
- Hinterhausen
- Lissingen
- Michelbach
- Müllenborn
- Oos
- Roth
- Lissingen Castle
- ''Erlöserkirche''
- Villa Sarabodis
- ''Juddekirchhof''
- Famous people
- In popular culture
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Gerolstein () is a town in the Vulkaneifel district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Gerolstein is a local municipality of the Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein. It has been approved as a Luftkurort (spa town).
== History == As early as the Stone Age, there is evidence of human habitation in the Buchenloch, a nearby cave. In the Bronze Age the Dietzenley was used by the Celts as a refuge castle. In Roman times a temple and dwellings were known to have existed, and remnants of them have been preserved.
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2 mapped locations