Oberelz 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 Kelberg, whose seat is in the like-named municipality.
The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
The village was mentioned in 1336 as Eltze. The name comes from the municipality’s location in the headwaters of the river Elzbach, which empties into the Moselle near Moselkern. In feudal times, Oberelz belonged to the County of Virneburg. Under Prussian administration it was a municipality in the Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”) of Kelberg in the Adenau district. In the course of administrative restructuring in Rhineland-Palatinate in 1970, the municipality, along with the others in the Amt of Kelberg, was assigned to the Daun district, which has since been given the name Vulkaneifel.
Abre alas pra minha folia
Já está chegando a hora
Abre alas pra minha bandeira
Já está chegando a hora
Apare os teus sonhos
Que a vida tem dono
E ela vem te cobrar
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Não era assim
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De ficar alegre
Pra nunca chorar
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Não era assim
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A vida não era assim
Não era assim
Bandeira arriada
Folia guardada