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 (Kalkmulde).
History
Dollendorf was incorporated into Blankenheim on 1 July 1969.[1]
Sights
Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist (14th century tower; nave built 1732–1736)
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 (on the stations of the cross between Dollendorf and Schloßthal)
Haus Vellen or Vellerhof (Clemens-Josef-Haus), courtyard building from the 18th century with chapel and its own cemetery.
References
^Martin Bünermann (1970), Die Gemeinden des ersten Neugliederungsprogramms in Nordrhein-Westfalen (in German), Köln: Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, p. 99
Literature
Franz-Josef Außem: Die Pflanzenwelt in der Dollendorfer Kalkmulde in der Eifel. Cologne, 1994. ISBN3-88094-745-7
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. ISBN3-935221-55-X
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