Dahlem is a municipality in the district of Euskirchen, in the state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...

. It has the lowest population density and population of all the state's municipalities. It is located in 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 ...

hills, approx. 35 km south-west 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 ...

. The small medieval town Kronenburg is part of the municipality.

Geography

Dahlem is located in the northern Eifel region in the

High Fens – Eifel Nature Park The German- Belgian High Fens – Eifel Nature Park (), often called the North Eifel Nature Park (''Naturpark Nord Eifel''), is a cross-border nature park with elements in the German federal states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatina ...

, between

Blankenheim Blankenheim may refer to: Places * Blankenheim, North Rhine-Westphalia, a municipality in western Germany * Blankenheim, Saxony-Anhalt, a municipality in eastern Germany *Blankenheim Castle Blankenheim Castle () is a ''schloss'' above the village ...

in the northeast and

Stadtkyll Stadtkyll is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a '' Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Gerolstein, ...

in the southwest. The

Kyll The Kyll (), noted by the Roman poet Ausonius as ''Celbis'', is a river in western Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate), left tributary of the Moselle. It rises in the Eifel mountains, near the border with Belgium and flows ...

flows through the region from the Glaadtbach. The

Heidenköpfe The Heidenköpfe (plural) are a group of three summits (Heidenkopf I, Heidenkopf II und Heidenkopf III) near Dahlem (Nordeifel), Dahlem in Germany that are about . They lie within the mountain region of North Eifel in the counties ...

summits lie in the Ripsdorfer forest to the east.

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Municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia Euskirchen (district) {{Euskirchen-geo-stub