Zettingen

Zettingen 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, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the Eifel, on the Autobahn A 48, just across Landesstraße (State Road) 108 from Hambuch.Extent of municipal areaThe municipality of Zettingen has a total area of 3.70 km², of which 2.84 km² is cropland and 0.15 km² is wooded.HistoryIn 1267, Zettingen had its first documentary mention. Archaeological finds in and around the village have, however, led to the conclusion that the area was already settled by the Romans.In the 13th century, the Archbishops of Trier managed to bring into their ownership the so-called “treasury” of Klotten with its outlying countryside, within which lay Zettingen. On 1 October 1251, Archbishop of Trier Arnold II of Isenburg assumed the parish church in Hambuch with its branch churches with approval from the patron of the Rosenthal Monastery community.