Dollendorf

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.

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)
 * Dollendorf Castle ruins
 * Neuweiler Castle not far from Ahrhütte, below Schloßthal (wall remains)
 * Haus Vellen or Vellerhof (Clemens-Josef-Haus), courtyard building from the 18th century with chapel and its own cemetery.

Literature

 * Franz-Josef Außem: Die Pflanzenwelt in der Dollendorfer Kalkmulde in der Eifel. Cologne, 1994. ISBN 3-88094-745-7
 * 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. ISBN 3-935221-55-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