Lampaden | |
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 Coat of arms | |
Location of Lampaden
within Trier-Saarburg district 
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 Location of Lampaden | |
  Lampaden  Lampaden | |
| Coordinates: 49°38′55″N 6°42′7″E / 49.64861°N 6.70194°E | |
| Country | Germany |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| District | Trier-Saarburg |
| Municipal assoc. | Saarburg-Kell |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2019–24) | Martin Marx[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 8.16 km2 (3.15 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 420 m (1,380 ft) |
| Population (2023-12-31)[2] | |
• Total | 545 |
| • Density | 66.8/km2 (173/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| Postal codes | 54316 |
| Dialling codes | 06588 |
| Vehicle registration | TR |
| Website | lampaden.de |
Lampaden is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The village is over a thousand years old and acquired grazing rights in the year 1036. The area was already populated in Celtic and Roman times.
During World War II, the only two operational V3 cannons used to bombard Luxembourg were installed in a wooded ravine of the river Ruwer at Lampaden about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) southeast of Trier. The village was heavily damaged in early March 1945 during a German counterattack.
Lampaden has 599 inhabitants (as of 2016).[3] These include 279 men (49 %) and 288 women (51%).
References
[edit]- ^ Direktwahlen 2019, Landkreis Trier-Saarburg, Landeswahlleiter Rheinland-Pfalz, accessed 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2023" (in German). Federal Statistical Office of Germany. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ "rlpDirekt Portal". www.rlpdirekt.de. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
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