Mayen is a town in the Mayen-Koblenz District of the Rhineland-Palatinate Federal State of Germany, in the eastern part of the Volcanic Eifel Region. As well as the main town, there are five further settlements which are part of Mayen, they are: Alzheim, Kürrenberg, Hausen-Betzing, Hausen and Nitztal. Mayen is the administrative centre of the Vordereifel ‘Collective Municipality’, although is itself not part of the municipality.
To the west, as well as to the north and south-west, of Mayen is the country landscape of the Eifel. To the east, the landscape flattens out, running towards the Koblenz-Neuwied Basin, which itself can be divided into the northern section of Pellenz and the southern section of Maifeld. This area is also geographically considered to be part of the Eifel. Because of this, Mayen is often called ‘The Gateway to the Eifel’.
The small river Nette runs through the town, flowing from the Eifel towards Weißenthurm on the Rhine.
Even in Roman times, Mayen (lat. Megina)…