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 was th seat of the former "Verbandsgemeinde" of Obere Kyll. Geography. Jünkerath, along with its outlying centre ("Ortsteil") of Glaadt, lies in the Kyll valley in the Eifel. Geologically, Jünkerath is part of the "Kalkeifel" (“Limestone Eifel”). History. Jünkerath is among the Eifel's oldest places. The name is derived from "Icorigium", a station on the Trier-Cologne Roman road, which was marked as early as the 4th century on the Tabula Peutingeriana. As a  result of the Treaty of Lunéville, Jünkerath passed along with the rest of the lands on the Rhine’s left bank to France in 1801, and then in 1815 came the cession to Prussia. Count Sternberg-Manderscheid acquired in the 1803 "Reichsdeputationshauptschluss" as the landholder, among other things, the holdings formerly belonging to the monasteries at Weissenau and Schussenried in Upper Swabia to offset his loss of Blankenheim, Jünkerath, Gerolstein and Dollendorf. Section::::"Landgemeinde Jünkerath". The municipality of Jünkerath was newly formed by law on 27 February 1930. In the "Gesetz betreffend die Bildung der Landgemeinde Jünkerath (Kreis Daun)" (“Law Pertaining  to the Formation of the Rural Municipality of Jünkerath [Daun District]”), the following was set forth: Politics. Municipal council. The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Mayor. Jünkerath's mayor is Norbert Bischof. Coat of arms. The German blazon reads: "Ein blauer Schild darin ein silberner Löwe mit goldener Krone, umgeben von 6 goldenen Lilien. Der Löwe trägt einen fünfzackigen roten Turnierkragen." The municipality's  arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Azure semée of fleurs-de-lis Or a lion rampant argent armed and langued gules and crowned of the second surmounted at the shoulder by a label of five points of the fourth. Curiously, the German blazon does not match the coat of arms shown at the municipality's website. The blazon stipulates six lilies, but only five are shown, the lion's attitude, rampant, is not mentioned, nor does anything in the blazon deal with the tongue's or the claws’ tincture (“armed and langued gules”). Jünkerath's arms go  back to the old arms borne by the Lords of Jünkerath and to the time when Jünkerath belonged to the lordship at Schleiden. The noblemen of Jünkerath possessed, like almost all Eifel noble families, their own coat of arms. The Jünkerath arms can also be found in the arms of the County of Blankenheim, which is quarterly. On 28 September 1934, the municipality appointed Schulze Grady to request of the Reich Minister of the Interior that Jünkerath be allowed to bear its own arms. Approval came early the next spring. The arms have been borne since 28 March 1935. Culture  and sightseeing. Museums. The "Eisenmuseum" (“Iron Museum”) in Jünkerath documents the Eifel iron industry's history since the 15th century. On display are, among other things, moulds, decorative ovens, cast iron plating and much more. Economy and infrastructure. Jünkerath station lies on the "Eifelbahn" (Cologne–Euskirchen–Gerolstein–Trier) and at peak times is served by the following trains: For all local public transport, three tariff systems apply: the "Verkehrsverbund Region Trier" (VRT), the "Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg", and for journeys crossing tariff zones, the "NRW-Tarif". Once, there was a junction in Jünkerath where the now abandoned and dismantled "Vennquerbahn" branched  off the "Eifelbahn", leading by way of Losheim at the Belgian border to Malmedy.