Holiday apartment in Upper Kyll

Upper Kyll is not a single compact holiday resort, but a historical regional and landscape reference along the upper reaches of the Kyll in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate. This classification is important for your holiday planning: the page bundles holiday apartments in several places within the former administrative area. You should therefore always consider the exact location of your accommodation together with the respective place.

Key facts about Upper Kyll

  • Historical administrative and landscape reference along the upper reaches of the Kyll
  • Part of the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • The former Verbandsgemeinde of Upper Kyll became part of the Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein on 1 January 2019
  • Several independent places belonged to the historical administrative area

A region with several local references

The name Upper Kyll describes an area that historically consisted of several municipalities. These included Birgel, Esch, Feusdorf, Gönnersdorf, Hallschlag, Jünkerath, Kerschenbach, Lissendorf, Ormont, Scheid, Schüller, Stadtkyll and Steffeln. If you are looking for a holiday apartment here, you are therefore choosing not only a region, but always also a specific place within this former administrative area.

Panoramic view over Steffeln in the Eifel
Panoramic view over Steffeln in the Vulkaneifel district — Photo: Colling-architektur — Source page — License URL: CC BY-SA 3.0

The places of historical Upper Kyll

For an overview, you will find here the places that belonged to the former administrative area of Upper Kyll: Birgel, Esch, Feusdorf, Gönnersdorf, Hallschlag, Jünkerath, Kerschenbach, Lissendorf, Ormont, Scheid, Schüller, Stadtkyll and Steffeln. From the shared historical affiliation, the present-day character, distances or amenities of the individual places cannot be reliably inferred.

What does this mean for the holiday apartment?

If you are planning with your family, it is best to use Upper Kyll as a regional search area and then check the exact location of the respective holiday apartment. This way it remains clear where the accommodation is actually located and how you would like to base your excursion planning on it. Statements about prices, availability, amenities or particular advantages of individual places cannot be derived from the historical area designation.

The classification of the region has also changed: the former Verbandsgemeinde of Upper Kyll has not existed as an independent Verbandsgemeinde since 1 January 2019, but became part of the Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein. For searching and geographical orientation, however, the name Upper Kyll remains a helpful reference to the places named.

Further classification

The Vulkaneifel forms the broader regional framework. For accommodation searches, the next step then leads to the specific place within the former administrative area of Upper Kyll.