Vallendar

Vallendar is a country recognized tourist motel and center in the district of Mayen Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the administrative headquarters of the Verbandsgemeinde Vallendar, to which it also belongs. The place in the movement valleys is the starting place of the call, whereby the syllables val and ndar are to be prominent. Both syllables have Indo European roots: Val manner flowing, at the same time as ndar suggests marshy terrain. Vallendar is cited for the first time around 830 to 840 as belongings of the archbishops of Trier; however it is believed to be of Celtic origin and for this reason a great deal older 700 to 600 BC.

The electorate of Trier had their property administered by using bailiffs, who, however, were capable of withdraw their possessions increasingly from the electorate's get right of entry to. Thus, in view that 1232, the Counts of Sayn rulers and constructed in 1240 on the north go out of Vallendar a castle on whose foundations nowadays the House d Ester, the so called Marienburg stands. In addition, Vallendar received at this time metropolis partitions. 1143 noticed the founding of the Schonstatter monastery of Augustinians, which changed into dissolved in 1567 again.