Betteldorf
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Betteldorf | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Betteldorf
within Vulkaneifel district
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 Location of Betteldorf | |
  Betteldorf  Betteldorf | |
| Coordinates: 50°15′08″N 6°45′21″E / 50.25222°N 6.75583°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Vulkaneifel |
| Municipal assoc. | Daun |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Frank Spies[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.31 km2 (1.28 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 540 m (1,770 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 257 |
| • Density | 77.6/km2 (201/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 54570 |
| Dialling codes | 06595 |
| Vehicle registration | DAU |
| Website | www.betteldorf.de |
Betteldorf is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Daun, whose seat is in the like-named town.
Location
The municipality lies in the High Eifel at the foot of the Döhmberg, some 11 km northwest of the district seat of Daun. To the south, Bundesstraße 410 runs by the village.
History
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 8 council members, who were elected by majority vote at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: Unter rotem Schildhaupt, darin eine goldene Zange, in Gold ein grüner Leistenschragen, belegt mit einer roten Mispel mit goldenem Butzen.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Or a saltire vert surmounted by a medlar blossom gules seeded of the field, in a chief of the third a pair of tongs fesswise of the field.
The local patron saint is Saint Apollonia, whose attribute, the tongs, stands as a charge in the chief. The saltire (X-shaped cross) refers to the Roman roads that crossed southwest of the Döhmberg. The early Roman settlement here is also documented by important finds of troves of coins. The red medlar blossom with the golden centre (“seeded of the field”, that is to say, “Or”, or gold) is taken from the arms borne by the Duke of Arenberg, under whose rule Betteldorf fell after the last Count of Manderscheid died. The tinctures gules and Or (red and gold) come from the Manderscheids’ arms.[3]
