Lampaden is a municipality in the Trier-Saarburg

Trier-Saarburg

Trier-Saarburg is a district in the west of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Neighboring districts are Bitburg-Prüm, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Birkenfeld, Sankt Wendel , and Merzig-Wadern . To the west it borders Luxembourg...

 district, in Rhineland-Palatinate

Rhineland-Palatinate

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, Germany

Germany

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. The village itself is over a thousand years old and acquired grazing rights

Grazing rights

Grazing rights is a legal term referring to the right of a user to allow their livestock to feed in a given area.- United States :...

 in the year 1036. The area was already populated in Celtic and Roman

Ancient Rome

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 times.

During World War II, the only two operational V3 cannons used to bombard Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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 stood in a wooded ravine of the Ruwer River

Ruwer River

The Ruwer is a river in Germany with a length of 46 kilometres, a right tributary of the Moselle River. The valley of the Ruwer is a part of the wine-growing region Mosel near Trier in Rhineland-Palatinate...

 at Lampaden about 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) southeast of Trier

Trier

Trier, historically called in English Treves is a city in Germany on the banks of the Moselle. It is the oldest city in Germany, founded in or before 16 BC....

. The village was heavily damaged in early March 1945 during a German counterattack.