Dünfus

Dünfus is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Kaisersesch.GeographyLocationDünfus lies in a hollow in the Eifel south of the Brohlbach, west of Brohl and Forst.HistoryIn 1288, Dünfus had its first documentary mention with a reference to somebody named “Dizzeemann von Dunevuse”; the name is of Celtic origin and means “height on the brook”. Between 1686 and 1688, a chapel was built in Saint Bartholomew’s honour. The overlordship was held by the Electorate of Trier until 1794 when the area was occupied by French Revolutionary troops. In 1815 Dünfus was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna and was made part of the Prussian Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Karden. In 1933, Dünfus was grouped into the newly formed Amt of Karden-Treis in the Cochem district. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded state of Rhineland-Palatinate.