Kaperich

Kaperich 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 Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.GeographyLocationThe 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.Neighbouring municipalitiesKaperich’s neighbours are Lirstal, Höchstberg and Uersfeld.Constituent communitiesKaperich has an outlying hamlet called Kölnische Höfe, which is home to roughly 25 people. This hamlet is sometimes also called “Pochtener Höfe”.HistoryIn feudal times, Kaperich belonged until 1794 to the Electoral-Cologne Amt of Nürburg. Under Prussian administration, Kaperich became a municipality in the Adenau district and the Amt of Kelberg, until 1932. After administrative reform in 1970, the municipality, along with others in the Amt of Kelberg, passed to what was then known as the Daun district; the same district is now called the Vulkaneifel district.