Arloff is a village in the borough of

Bad Münstereifel Bad Münstereifel () is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen (district), Euskirchen, Germany, with about 17,000 inhabitants, situated in the far southwest of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The little town is one of on ...

in the district of

Euskirchen Euskirchen (; Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Öskerche'') is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Euskirchen (district), district Euskirchen. While Euskirchen resembles a modern shopping town, it also has a history dating ba ...

in the German state of

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. Arloff Castle is a well preserved fortified building from the

early Gothic Early Gothic is the term for the first period of Gothic architecture which lasted from about 1120 until about 1200. The early Gothic builders used innovative technologies to resolve the problem of masonry ceilings which were too heavy for the t ...

period.

Location

Arloff lies in the

Voreifel The Voreifel ("Fore-Eifel" or "Pre-Eifel") is the name of a settlement area in the southern part of the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a term that grew out of the local speech. The region of the Voreifel includes the tow ...

between

and the old town of Bad Münstereifel on the boundary between the Zülpich Börde lowlands and the

Eifel The Eifel (; , ) is a low mountain range in western Germany, eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the southern area of the German-speaking Com ...

mountains. The river

Erft The Erft () is a river in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows through the foothills of the Eifel, and joins the Lower Rhine (left tributary). Its origin is near Nettersheim, and its mouth in Neuss-Grimlinghausen south of the Josef Cardina ...

flows through the village. The Erft and the ''

Landesstraße ''Landesstraßen'' (singular: ''Landesstraße'' ) are roads in Germany and Austria that are, as a rule, the responsibility of the respective German or Austrian federal state. The term may therefore be translated as "state road". They are road ...

'' 194 are crossed by local roads that run along the edge of the Eifel. The urban area of Arloff and the village to the north, Kirspenich, merge here in the wide valley of the Erft.

Archeology

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was found near Arloff. It was at first misclassified as a

dodecahedron In geometry, a dodecahedron (; ) or duodecahedron is any polyhedron with twelve flat faces. The most familiar dodecahedron is the regular dodecahedron with regular pentagons as faces, which is a Platonic solid. There are also three Kepler–Po ...

. It is on display in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum.

References

Literature /Sources

* ''Eifelführer 2006''. 39th edn. Rheinländischer Eifelverein, Düren, 2006, . * Gabriele Harzheim: ''Historische Wege in der Eifel, zu Fuß und per Rad''. J. P. Bachem Verlag, Cologne, 2004, . * Harald Herzog, Klaus Ring: ''„Mauern, Türme und Ruinen“. Ein Wanderführer zu Burgen und Schlössern im Kreis Euskirchen''. Published by the ''Verein der Geschichts- und Heimatfreunde des Kreises Euskirchen'', Rheinland Verlag, Cologne, 1990, . * Dirk Holtermann, Harald Herzog: ''Die Euskirchener Burgenrunde. Radeln zwischen Erft und Eifel''. Walter Rau Verlag, Düsseldorf, 2000, .

External links

Arloff at the homepage of Bad Münstereifel

{{Borough of Bad Münstereifel Euskirchen (district) Former municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia