Солтүстік Рейн-Вестфалиядағы тарихи қала – Бад Мюнстерейфель

Place in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany

Bad Münstereifel is a historical spa town in the district of Euskirchen, Germany, with about 17,000 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.

Bad Münstereifel lies about 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 in area at heights of 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 of trails enable access to the low mountain uplands, which are about from the Eifel National Park.

Bad Münstereifel is the seat of SIGNO innovation society Eifel Association, Association of the greatest inventors in Germany. Signo is a project of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Joined the Association is a youth and children's department, may acquire in the children and young people in a club's workshop, the basic knowledge of technology. Bad Münstereifel has four elementary schools in the main town as well as the subdistricts of Arloff, Mutscheid, and Houverath. A Hauptschule and Realschule share facilities, while the city has two Gymnasium: the public St. Michael Gymnasium and the diocesan run St. Angela Gymnasium. Furthermore, the Apostolic school of the Legionaries of Christ has its seat in the city. Since 1976, the city is also home to the University of Applied Sciences for the Administration of Justice of North Rhine Westphalia. There are also several private training facilities in the city, including the Kurt Schumacher Academy of the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung and the House of Labor Security of the Trade Association for Electrical and Precision Engineering. There is also a house of the Youth Red Cross as an educational facility for the National Association (North Division). Bad Münstereifel has a public library with a stock of 16,000 media.

Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926–2009), politician, former Bundesminister für Wirtschaft (Minister of Economic Affairs) and chairman of the FDP, lived in the district of Eschweiler.