Adenau

Adenau is a metropolis in the southern Ahreifel. It belongs to the district of Ahrweiler in Rhineland Palatinate and is the administrative headquarters of the municipality Adenau, to which she additionally belongs. Adenau is a state recognized vacationer inn and in line with kingdom planning as a center stated. 992 Adenau became first in a record of King Otto III. Mentioned in a document under the Middle High German name Adenova.

In the High Middle Ages Adenau belonged to the kingdom of the Counts of Are Nurburg, who gave their county in 1246 after the mediation of the Cologne Archbishop Conrad von Hochstaden the archbishopric of Cologne. After the extinction of the counts of Are Adenau belonged to the kurkolnischen Amt Nurburg. In 1162 Count Ulrich of Are donated his manor house in Adenau to the Knights of St. John. Thus Adenau became Duisburg and Werben Elbe the 0.33 oldest department of this order in Germany. Under their head, the friars first sought to care for and care for the ill and the pilgrims. Until 1518, the Commander turned into additionally pastoring of Adenau within the Catholic parish church of St. John the Baptist.