The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
Constituent communities
Kalenborn-Scheuern’s Ortsteile are, as its name implies, Kalenborn and Scheuern.
History
In 893, Kalenborn had its first documentary mention in Prüm Abbey’s directory of holdings, the Prümer Urbar, as de Caldebrunna
The municipality of Kalenborn was newly founded from the dissolved municipalities of Kalenborn and Scheuern on 7 June 1969. On 1 December of that same year, the name was changed to Kalenborn-Scheuern.
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.[3]
The German blazon reads: Von Rot über Silber geteilt; oben drei goldene fächerförmige Weizenähren, unten ein blauer Ziehbrunnen.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Per fess gules three ears of wheat, the dexter bendwise, the middle palewise and the sinister bendwise sinister Or, and argent a well with a roof and pail azure.
The three ears of wheat are, in a roundabout way, canting for the name “Scheuern”. Scheuern was, along with other neighbouring places, subject to tithing by Prüm Abbey, and indeed, the Abbey’s tithe barn stood in Scheuern, which drew its name from the building: Scheuer is Eifel dialect for what in High German is called a Scheune – a barn. Moreover, the ears of wheat also stand for the double municipality’s centuries-long root source of income, agriculture, and its rural structure. The charge below the line of partition is likewise canting. It stands for the name “Kalenborn”, which is held to have come from words meaning “cold well” or “cool spring” (the old form, Caldebrunna, is closer to the Modern High German words for this: kalter Brunnen). The blue well is meant to represent this graphically.[4]
Hauptstraße, graveyard, warriors’ memorial 1914-1918, possibly expanded after the Second World War.
Scheuern
Saint Lawrence’s and Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Laurentius und St. Matthias), Hauptstraße, small Gothicized aisleless church, 1629.
Hillesheimer Straße 13 – stately Baroque house, late 18th/early 19th century, oven porch.
Kalenborn-Scheuern lies in the Verkehrsverbund Region Trier (VRT), whose fares therefore apply. The municipality is served on weekdays by bus route 522 of the Rhein-Mosel-Verkehrsgesellschaft linking the double village with the nearest town, Gerolstein, as well as with Hillesheim. The nearest railway station is Oberbettingen-Hillesheim on the Eifelbahn (Cologne–Euskirchen–Gerolstein–Trier) some 5 km to the northeast.
