Veldenz

Geschichte

Veldenz is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the former main seat of the County of Veldenz, once a prominent principality to which belonged 120 villages and towns now in Rhineland-Palatinate and northern Alsace and Lorraine.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Middle Moselle region of valley country marked by even slopes and former oxbows of the Moselle. Veldenz is found on the Moselle’s right bank, but does not lie right at the water’s edge, but rather some two kilometres back from the river, under the outermost forests of the Hunsrück. Roughly 850 ha of the 1 441 ha municipal area is wooded. About 130 ha is given over to winegrowing.Veldenz belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Bernkastel-Kues, whose seat is in the like-named town.Nearby municipalitiesNeighbouring municipalities are, among others, Burgen and Mülheim. The nearest middle centres are Bernkastel-Kues, some 10 km away, and Wittlich, some 17 km away. Trier lies some 45 km away.