Papenkaule

The Papenkaule is a dry crater of a volcano that was active about 10,000 years ago. It lies north of Gerolstein in the Eifel mountains in Germany. The lava which was released as the result of an explosion did not, however, flow out of the vent of the Papenkaule, but reached the surface to the west of it at the Hagelskaule and streamed southwards into the Kyll valley.

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Type: Tourist attraction
Description: dry crater of a vulcanic eruption in the northern part of the Munterley-massive close to Gerolstein
Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest

Highlights include Buchenloch and Juddekirchhof.

Buchenloch

Cave

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Buchenloch is a cave.

Juddekirchhof

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Gerolstein station

Railway station

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Gerolstein station is a station on the Eifel Railway in Gerolstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Its former function as an important junction station, however, has been lost with the closure of the Cross Eifel Railway and the West Eifel Railway.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gerolstein and Pelm.

Gerolstein

Town

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Gerolstein is a town in the Vulkaneifel district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Gerolstein is a local municipality of the Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein. It has been approved as a Luftkurort.

Pelm

Village

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Pelm 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 Gerolstein, whose seat is in the like-named town.