Nohn
Encyclopedia
Nohn 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 Hillesheim
, whose seat is in the like-named town
.
, a part of the Eifel
known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features and even ongoing activity today, and in the Kalkeifel, another part of the Eifel characterized by limestone
(Kalkstein in German
). The municipality lies right on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia
and at the common point of three districts, Ahrweiler
, Euskirchen
and Vulkaneifel (until 31 December 2006 called Daun).
The nearest major centres within a 20 km radius of Nohn are Adenau
, Blankenheim
, Daun
, Gerolstein
, Hillesheim
, Kelberg
and Jünkerath
.
phrase ad nonum lapidem, meaning “at the ninth stone”, that is to say, at the ninth milestone on the old Roman road between Trier
and Cologne
. This, however, cannot be taken as serious historical information, for in Roman
times, Nohn had not yet arisen. Nohn had its first documentary mention about 970 as the location of a chapel
.
In feudal
times, Nohn belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun. The knightly seat at Nohn was held for several centuries by the Lords of Hillesheim. The municipality’s and the church’s patron saint is Saint Martin
. This gives a clue as to a long church tradition in the village. As early as 970, a chapel in Nohn was named.
Until 30 September 1932, the municipality belonged to the Adenau district. This district, however, was abolished in the course of administrative reform. From 1 October 1932 to 6 November 1970, Nohn was part of the Ahrweiler district, and since 7 November 1970 it has belonged to the Daun district, whose name was changed on 1 January 2007 to Vulkaneifel.
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
might be described thus: Per fess, Or a demi-eagle bicapitate displayed sable armed and langued gules, and azure a sword bendwise point to chief argent, hilted of the first.
The two-headed eagle in the upper part of the escutcheon refers to a relationship between the municipality and St. Maximin’s Abbey
in Trier
. The Kapelle Noyn (“Nohn Chapel”) supposedly once belonged to the Abbey, according to a falsified, but presumably factually correct, document from 970. There is a further clue to a relationship between the two in a reference from 1759 that names the Abbey as the body with tithing
rights to the village. The lower half of the arms is charge
d with a sword, Saint Martin’s
attribute, thus representing the municipality’s and the church’s patron saint.
built as part of a limited series in the early 1920s by the Brothers Hoffmann in Nohn. The one on display on the premises of the firm Hoffmann-Reisen is the only one of these vehicles still in existence. It is driven by a British
Villiers
engine
.
In 2005 and 2006, the Nohner was driven in the fourth and fifth Bad Münstereifel
Ernst Neumann-Neander Memorial Roadtrip.
as an aisleless church
in 1781. The tower has its beginnings in the 16th century. The church is consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours
. The Romanesque Revival
building has a high altar
from the earlier half of the 17th century that, although altered a number of times, is still in very much its original condition. The confessional
s and the pulpit
come from the 18th century. The Baroque
organ
was built in in 1868. It had already been built in 1720 and used elsewhere, though. Before coming to Nohn, it had been at Saint Mathias’s Abbey.
In the abutting graveyard stands a Crucifixion
Bildstock
from 1741. The church’s entrance door, flanked by lions, bears a warriors’ memorial to the dead of the First World War.
Other listed buildings and structures in the municipality include the following:
, but is also surrounded by the Blankenheim an der Ahrquelle, Hocheifel-Nürburgring and Kelberg holiday regions. Given its favourable central location, Nohn is an ideal starting point for outings in all these holiday regions or to other points of interest in the Eifel
.
Through the municipality runs the “Geo-Path” of the Verbandsgemeinde of Hillesheim
, a local hiking loop as well as one of the Eifelverein’s hiking trails. Through the nearby Ahbach valley run the well known Eifel-Krimi-Wanderweg (“Eifel Crime Fiction Hiking Trail”), the Eifelsteig and the two cycle paths Kalkeifel-Radweg and Mineralquellen-Route, the latter’s name referring to mineral spring
s.
-Ahütte municipal area, the Dreimühlen Waterfall, which draws its name from the nearby ruin of Dreimühlen, a basalt
deposit on the Nohner Bach, the limekiln
in the Üxheim-Niederehe municipal area (on the road from Nohn to Stroheich), the limestone
crags in the Ahbach valley and the ruin of Neublankenheim near Üxheim-Ahütte.
Cycle paths in the area are the Ahrtal-Radweg, the Kalkeifel-Radweg and the mountain bike path for cross-country riders that leads around the Nürburgring
.
258 (Aachen
-Koblenz
), over Landesstraße 68 to Bundesstraße 421 (elgium|Belgian border-Hunsrück
) or Landesstraße 70 to Bundesstraße 410 (uxembourg|Luxembourgish border-Mayen
).
After A 1 is completed between the Blankenheim and Gerolstein interchange
s, the municipality will be reachable through the Adenau interchange.
with a butcher
’s shop. Not far from the village square is a small beverage dealer’s shop. Also, there are two auto workshops/dealerships as well as an electrician
’s business. On the village’s outskirts (towards Adenau) are a woodworking business, a street improvement business and a bus company with a filling station
.
Several times each week, Nohn is visited by vending trucks selling baked goods and foods.
Municipalities of Germany
Municipalities are the lowest level of territorial division in Germany. This may be the fourth level of territorial division in Germany, apart from those states which include Regierungsbezirke , where municipalities then become the fifth level.-Overview:With more than 3,400,000 inhabitants, the...
belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde
Verbandsgemeinde
A Verbandsgemeinde is an administrative unit in the German Bundesländer of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt.-Rhineland-Palatinate:...
, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district
Districts of Germany
The districts of Germany are known as , except in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein where they are known simply as ....
in Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate is one of the 16 states of the Federal Republic of Germany. It has an area of and about four million inhabitants. The capital is Mainz. English speakers also commonly refer to the state by its German name, Rheinland-Pfalz ....
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Hillesheim
Hillesheim (Verbandsgemeinde)
Hillesheim is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Hillesheim....
, whose seat is in the like-named town
Hillesheim
Hillesheim is the third largest town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, to which it also belongs.- Location :...
.
Location
The municipality lies both in the VulkaneifelVulkan Eifel
The Vulkan Eifel is a region in the Eifel Mountains in Germany, that is defined to a large extent by its volcanic geological history. Characteristic of the Vulkan Eifel are its typical explosion crater lakes or maars, and numerous other signs of volcanic activity such as volcanic tuffs, lava...
, a part of the Eifel
Eifel
The Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium....
known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features and even ongoing activity today, and in the Kalkeifel, another part of the Eifel characterized by limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
(Kalkstein in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
). The municipality lies right on the boundary with North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
and at the common point of three districts, Ahrweiler
Ahrweiler
Ahrweiler is a district in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the districts Euskirchen, Rhein-Sieg and the city Bonn in the state North Rhine-Westphalia, and the districts of Neuwied, Mayen-Koblenz and Vulkaneifel.- History :The region was conquered by the Romans under...
, Euskirchen
Euskirchen (district)
Euskirchen is a Kreis in the south-west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Aachen, Düren, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Rhein-Sieg, Ahrweiler, Daun, Bitburg-Prüm, and the Liège province .-History:...
and Vulkaneifel (until 31 December 2006 called Daun).
The nearest major centres within a 20 km radius of Nohn are Adenau
Adenau
Adenau is a town in the High Eifel in Germany. It is known as the Johanniterstadt because the Order of Saint John was based there in the Middle Ages. The town's coat of arms combines the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne with the lion of the lords of Nürburg...
, Blankenheim
Blankenheim, North Rhine-Westphalia
Blankenheim is a municipality in the district of Euskirchen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geography:Blankenheim is located in the Eifel hills, approx. 27 km south-west of Euskirchen...
, Daun
Daun, Germany
Daun is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the district seat and also the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun.- Location :...
, Gerolstein
Gerolstein
Gerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde. Gerolstein is headquarters to a large mineral water firm, Gerolsteiner Brunnen...
, Hillesheim
Hillesheim
Hillesheim is the third largest town in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, to which it also belongs.- Location :...
, Kelberg
Kelberg
Kelberg 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 like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat...
and Jünkerath
Jünkerath
Jünkerath 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 Obere Kyll, and is home to its seat.- Location :Jünkerath, along with its outlying...
.
History
The name “Nohn” is held to derive from the LatinLatin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...
phrase ad nonum lapidem, meaning “at the ninth stone”, that is to say, at the ninth milestone on the old Roman road between Trier
Trier
Trier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC....
and Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. This, however, cannot be taken as serious historical information, for in Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....
times, Nohn had not yet arisen. Nohn had its first documentary mention about 970 as the location of a chapel
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
.
In feudal
Feudalism
Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for ordering society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.Although derived from the...
times, Nohn belonged to the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun. The knightly seat at Nohn was held for several centuries by the Lords of Hillesheim. The municipality’s and the church’s patron saint is Saint Martin
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
. This gives a clue as to a long church tradition in the village. As early as 970, a chapel in Nohn was named.
Until 30 September 1932, the municipality belonged to the Adenau district. This district, however, was abolished in the course of administrative reform. From 1 October 1932 to 6 November 1970, Nohn was part of the Ahrweiler district, and since 7 November 1970 it has belonged to the Daun district, whose name was changed on 1 January 2007 to Vulkaneifel.
Municipal council
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority votePlurality voting system
The plurality voting system is a single-winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single-member constituencies...
at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Coat of arms
The municipality’s armsCoat of arms
A coat of arms is a unique heraldic design on a shield or escutcheon or on a surcoat or tabard used to cover and protect armour and to identify the wearer. Thus the term is often stated as "coat-armour", because it was anciently displayed on the front of a coat of cloth...
might be described thus: Per fess, Or a demi-eagle bicapitate displayed sable armed and langued gules, and azure a sword bendwise point to chief argent, hilted of the first.
The two-headed eagle in the upper part of the escutcheon refers to a relationship between the municipality and St. Maximin’s Abbey
St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier
St. Maximin's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Trier in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.-History:The abbey, traditionally considered one of the oldest monasteries in western Europe, was held to have been founded by Saint Maximin of Trier in the 4th century. Maximin St. Maximin's Abbey was a...
in Trier
Trier
Trier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC....
. The Kapelle Noyn (“Nohn Chapel”) supposedly once belonged to the Abbey, according to a falsified, but presumably factually correct, document from 970. There is a further clue to a relationship between the two in a reference from 1759 that names the Abbey as the body with tithing
Tithe
A tithe is a one-tenth part of something, paid as a contribution to a religious organization or compulsory tax to government. Today, tithes are normally voluntary and paid in cash, cheques, or stocks, whereas historically tithes were required and paid in kind, such as agricultural products...
rights to the village. The lower half of the arms is charge
Charge (heraldry)
In heraldry, a charge is any emblem or device occupying the field of an escutcheon . This may be a geometric design or a symbolic representation of a person, animal, plant, object or other device...
d with a sword, Saint Martin’s
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
attribute, thus representing the municipality’s and the church’s patron saint.
The Nohner
The Nohner is a motorcycleMotorcycle
A motorcycle is a single-track, two-wheeled motor vehicle. Motorcycles vary considerably depending on the task for which they are designed, such as long distance travel, navigating congested urban traffic, cruising, sport and racing, or off-road conditions.Motorcycles are one of the most...
built as part of a limited series in the early 1920s by the Brothers Hoffmann in Nohn. The one on display on the premises of the firm Hoffmann-Reisen is the only one of these vehicles still in existence. It is driven by a British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
Villiers
Villiers Engineering
Villiers Engineering was a manufacturer of motorcycles and cycle parts, and an engineering company based in Villiers Street, Wolverhampton, England....
engine
Engine
An engine or motor is a machine designed to convert energy into useful mechanical motion. Heat engines, including internal combustion engines and external combustion engines burn a fuel to create heat which is then used to create motion...
.
In 2005 and 2006, the Nohner was driven in the fourth and fifth Bad Münstereifel
Bad Münstereifel
Bad Münstereifel is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen, Germany, with about 19,000 inhabitants, situated in the far south of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia...
Ernst Neumann-Neander Memorial Roadtrip.
Buildings
The Nohn parish church was built by Brother Nick from SolothurnSolothurn
The city of Solothurn is the capital of the Canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. The city also comprises the only municipality of the district of the same name.-Pre-roman settlement:...
as an aisleless church
Aisleless church
An Aisleless church is a single-nave church building that consists of a single hall-like room. While similar to the hall church, the aisleless church lacks aisles or passageways either side of the nave separated from the nave by colonnades or arcades, a row of pillars or columns...
in 1781. The tower has its beginnings in the 16th century. The church is consecrated to Saint Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours
Martin of Tours was a Bishop of Tours whose shrine became a famous stopping-point for pilgrims on the road to Santiago de Compostela. Around his name much legendary material accrued, and he has become one of the most familiar and recognizable Christian saints...
. The Romanesque Revival
Romanesque Revival architecture
Romanesque Revival is a style of building employed beginning in the mid 19th century inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque architecture...
building has a high altar
Altar
An altar is any structure upon which offerings such as sacrifices are made for religious purposes. Altars are usually found at shrines, and they can be located in temples, churches and other places of worship...
from the earlier half of the 17th century that, although altered a number of times, is still in very much its original condition. The confessional
Confessional
A confessional is a small, enclosed booth used for the Sacrament of Penance, often called confession, or Reconciliation. It is the usual venue for the sacrament in the Roman Catholic Church, but similar structures are also used in Anglican churches of an Anglo-Catholic orientation, and also in the...
s and the pulpit
Pulpit
Pulpit is a speakers' stand in a church. In many Christian churches, there are two speakers' stands at the front of the church. Typically, the one on the left is called the pulpit...
come from the 18th century. The Baroque
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
organ
Organ (music)
The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
was built in in 1868. It had already been built in 1720 and used elsewhere, though. Before coming to Nohn, it had been at Saint Mathias’s Abbey.
In the abutting graveyard stands a Crucifixion
Crucifixion
Crucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead...
Bildstock
Bildstock
A wayside shrine, is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain. They have been a feature of many cultures,...
from 1741. The church’s entrance door, flanked by lions, bears a warriors’ memorial to the dead of the First World War.
Other listed buildings and structures in the municipality include the following:
- Bergstraße 10 – building with roof with half-hipped gables from 1802.
- Hauptstraße 33 – one-floor timber-frameTimber framingTimber framing , or half-timbering, also called in North America "post-and-beam" construction, is the method of creating structures using heavy squared off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs . It is commonplace in large barns...
house, partly solid, with knee wallKnee wallIn architecture, a knee wall is typically a short wall, usually under three feet in height. In his book A Visual Dictionary of Architecture, Francis D. K. Ching defines a Knee Wall as "A short wall supporting rafters at some intermediate position along their length." The term is derived from the...
, possibly 18th century. - Hauptstraße 38 – estate along street from 1807 (or perhaps 1804 – the last digit is unclear).
- Kirchstraße/corner of Zur Ley – wayside chapel, plastered building from 1861.
- Kirchstraße/corner of Hauptstraße – sandstoneSandstoneSandstone is a sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized minerals or rock grains.Most sandstone is composed of quartz and/or feldspar because these are the most common minerals in the Earth's crust. Like sand, sandstone may be any colour, but the most common colours are tan, brown, yellow,...
BaroqueBaroque architectureBaroque architecture is a term used to describe the building style of the Baroque era, begun in late sixteenth century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and...
CrucifixionCrucifixionCrucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead...
BildstockBildstockA wayside shrine, is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain. They have been a feature of many cultures,...
. - Ob der Insel 2 – timber-frame estate complex.
- Zur Ley 2 – house or residential part of an estate complex from 1816 (?), red sandstone gateway.
- Zur Ley 3 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, sided, 18th/19th century.
- Nohner Mühle, southwest of the village on the Ahbach – former gristmill; house, 1778, barn, partly timber-frame from 1804.
- Wayside chapel near the Nohner Mühle, plastered building apparently from 1804.
Tourism
The municipality lies at the northeastern edge of the Hillesheim holiday region in the Vulkaneifel European GeoparkEuropean Geoparks Network
The European Geoparks Network, often known as the EGN, is a trans-national partnership of Geoparks across Europe formed in 2000 to provide mutual support to established and prospective Geoparks across the continent...
, but is also surrounded by the Blankenheim an der Ahrquelle, Hocheifel-Nürburgring and Kelberg holiday regions. Given its favourable central location, Nohn is an ideal starting point for outings in all these holiday regions or to other points of interest in the Eifel
Eifel
The Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium. It occupies parts of southwestern North Rhine-Westphalia, northwestern Rhineland-Palatinate and the south of the German-speaking Community of Belgium....
.
Through the municipality runs the “Geo-Path” of the Verbandsgemeinde of Hillesheim
Hillesheim (Verbandsgemeinde)
Hillesheim is a Verbandsgemeinde in the district Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Hillesheim....
, a local hiking loop as well as one of the Eifelverein’s hiking trails. Through the nearby Ahbach valley run the well known Eifel-Krimi-Wanderweg (“Eifel Crime Fiction Hiking Trail”), the Eifelsteig and the two cycle paths Kalkeifel-Radweg and Mineralquellen-Route, the latter’s name referring to mineral spring
Spring (hydrosphere)
A spring—also known as a rising or resurgence—is a component of the hydrosphere. Specifically, it is any natural situation where water flows to the surface of the earth from underground...
s.
Nearby points of interest
Worth seeing are a natural monument lying in the ÜxheimÜxheim
Üxheim 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 Hillesheim, whose seat is in the like-named town...
-Ahütte municipal area, the Dreimühlen Waterfall, which draws its name from the nearby ruin of Dreimühlen, a basalt
Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive volcanic rock. It is usually grey to black and fine-grained due to rapid cooling of lava at the surface of a planet. It may be porphyritic containing larger crystals in a fine matrix, or vesicular, or frothy scoria. Unweathered basalt is black or grey...
deposit on the Nohner Bach, the limekiln
Limekiln
A lime kiln is used to produce quicklime through the calcination of limestone . The chemical equation for this reaction is...
in the Üxheim-Niederehe municipal area (on the road from Nohn to Stroheich), the limestone
Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed largely of the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate . Many limestones are composed from skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral or foraminifera....
crags in the Ahbach valley and the ruin of Neublankenheim near Üxheim-Ahütte.
Cycle paths in the area are the Ahrtal-Radweg, the Kalkeifel-Radweg and the mountain bike path for cross-country riders that leads around the Nürburgring
Nürburgring
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex around the village of Nürburg, Germany. It features a modern Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a much longer old North loop track which was built in the 1920s around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. It is located about...
.
Transport
It is only a few kilometres over Landesstraße (State Road) 10 or 167 to BundesstraßeBundesstraße
Bundesstraße , abbreviated B, is the denotation for German and Austrian national highways.-Germany:...
258 (Aachen
Aachen
Aachen has historically been a spa town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Aachen was a favoured residence of Charlemagne, and the place of coronation of the Kings of Germany. Geographically, Aachen is the westernmost town of Germany, located along its borders with Belgium and the Netherlands, ...
-Koblenz
Koblenz
Koblenz is a German city situated on both banks of the Rhine at its confluence with the Moselle, where the Deutsches Eck and its monument are situated.As Koblenz was one of the military posts established by Drusus about 8 BC, the...
), over Landesstraße 68 to Bundesstraße 421 (elgium|Belgian border-Hunsrück
Hunsrück
The Hunsrück is a low mountain range in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the river valleys of the Moselle , the Nahe , and the Rhine . The Hunsrück is continued by the Taunus mountains on the eastern side of the Rhine. In the north behind the Moselle it is continued by the Eifel...
) or Landesstraße 70 to Bundesstraße 410 (uxembourg|Luxembourgish border-Mayen
Mayen
Mayen is a town in the Mayen-Koblenz District of the Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State of Germany, in the eastern part of the Volcanic Eifel Region. As well as the main town, there are five further settlements which are part of Mayen, they are: Alzheim, Kürrenberg, Hausen-Betzing, Hausen and Nitztal...
).
After A 1 is completed between the Blankenheim and Gerolstein interchange
Interchange (road)
In the field of road transport, an interchange is a road junction that typically uses grade separation, and one or more ramps, to permit traffic on at least one highway to pass through the junction without directly crossing any other traffic stream. It differs from a standard intersection, at which...
s, the municipality will be reachable through the Adenau interchange.
Businesses
In the village centre is a small supermarketSupermarket
A supermarket, a form of grocery store, is a self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise, organized into departments...
with a butcher
Butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat or any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat, poultry, fish and shellfish for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments...
’s shop. Not far from the village square is a small beverage dealer’s shop. Also, there are two auto workshops/dealerships as well as an electrician
Electrician
An electrician is a tradesman specializing in electrical wiring of buildings, stationary machines and related equipment. Electricians may be employed in the installation of new electrical components or the maintenance and repair of existing electrical infrastructure. Electricians may also...
’s business. On the village’s outskirts (towards Adenau) are a woodworking business, a street improvement business and a bus company with a filling station
Filling station
A filling station, also known as a fueling station, garage, gasbar , gas station , petrol bunk , petrol pump , petrol garage, petrol kiosk , petrol station "'servo"' in Australia or service station, is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants...
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Several times each week, Nohn is visited by vending trucks selling baked goods and foods.