20 Facts About Eifel

1.

Eifel is a low mountain range in western Germany and eastern Belgium.

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2.

Eifel is part of the Rhenish Massif; within its northern portions lies the Eifel National Park.

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3.

Eifel belongs to that part of the Rhenish Massif whose rolling plateau is categorised as peneplain highland, which was formed by the erosion of the ancient mountains of the Variscan mountain building phase and subsequent further uplifting.

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4.

Apart from its valleys, the Eifel is a gently rolling plateau from which elongated mountain ridges and individual mountains rise.

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5.

Several like the Schwarzer Mann in the Schnee-Eifel, stand out from a long way off as long, forested ridges or clearly isolated mountaintops.

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6.

Impoundment of these streams, especially in the North Eifel has led to the creation of very large reservoir, such as the Rursee, which is the second largest in Germany by volume, and the Urftsee.

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The Eifel is one of the few volcanically active areas of Germany, as is evinced by numerous discharges of carbonic acid, for example into the Laacher See.

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8.

Volcanism in the western and eastern Eifel is, in contrast to that of the High Eifel, much more recent than that of the Siebengebirge and Westerwald.

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9.

East Eifel volcanism came to an end with a huge eruption, as a result of which the magma chamber emptied and collapsed, creating a caldera.

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10.

Volcanism in the Eifel is thought to be partly caused by the Eifel hotspot, a place where hot material from deep in the mantle rises to the surface, and partly by melt-ascent at deep fractures in the Earth's crust.

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11.

Eifel is in the Atlantic climate zone with its relatively high precipitation; winters that are moderately cold and long with periods of snow; and summers that are often humid and cool.

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12.

The Eifel has a distinctly stimulating climate; the high elevations being considered as highly stimulating.

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13.

The Eifel is a clean air area with very low air-chemical pollution.

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14.

The artifacts from the Magdalena Cave show that the Eifel was visited by humans even during the height of the last ice age.

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15.

In Roman times, the Eifel was an important economic region.

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16.

Eifel region was severely hit in the 2021 European floods.

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17.

Much of the Eifel has limited infrastructure and there are almost no large industrial areas.

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18.

Abundance of timber, which was needed for smelting, and of watercourses, which were indispensable for the preparation and operation of hammer mills and bellows, made it possible for the Eifel to be an important supra-regional economic area even in the late Middle Ages.

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19.

Scary stories from the Eifel region were collected and partly published by headmaster, Heinrich Hoffmann, from Duren in 1900 and by Zender in the 1930s.

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20.

Eifel was the author of simple poems in the Eifel dialect, which he published in 1852.

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