Ulmen is a town in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde – a kind of collective municipality – to which it also belongs.
Aerial view of Ulmen
Ulmen, Castle Ulmen monumental zone
Ulmener Maar, seen from the castle.
Ulmen village centre with marketplace and Bürgersaal, seen from the castle.
A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake, which may also be called a maar.
The ten-day phreatomagmatic eruption that formed the Ukinrek maars
The Devil Mountain Lakes on the Seward Peninsula in western Alaska – the largest maar-based lakes in the world
The three maars at Daun (from front to rear): the Gemündener, Weinfelder and Schalkenmehrener Maar
Weinfelder Maar