Bad Münstereifel
town in the Euskirchen district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Bad Münstereifel (German pronunciation: [baːt mʏnstɐˈʔaɪfl̩] ) is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen, Germany, with about 18,000 inhabitants, situated in the far southwest of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The little town is one of only a few historical towns in the southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia, and because of this is often overcrowded by tourists throughout spring and summer.
Geography
Location
Bad Münstereifel lies about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Bonn and around ten (both as the crow flies) south of the county town of Euskirchen in the Münstereifel Forest, a part of the Eifel mountains. The river Erft flows through the town. It has a borough of around 151 km2 (58 sq mi) in area at heights of 200 to 586.1 m (656 to 1,923 ft) above sea level. The latter is the height of the Michelsberg, which is the highest point in the borough and rises in the northwestern part of the Ahr Hills (another region of the Eifel).
The borough is around 60 percent forested, several woods are designated as so-called ancient forest (Urwald). Over 200 km (120 mi) of trails enable access to the low mountain uplands, which are about 25 km (16 mi) from the Eifel National Park.
Due to its location in the Erft valley the old town of Bad Münstereifel, tourist and economic facilities, railways and streets were severely damaged by the floods 2021. Five persons died while these floods.
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