Horperath

 ( Municipalities In Rhineland-palatinate ) 

The municipality's arms might in English Heraldry language be described thus: Per fess argent a cross sable and gules three bezants.

Until the end of Feudalism times, Horperath, as part of the Amt of Nürburg, was an Electoral-Cologne holding,Fabricius, S. 72, 257 and the Cross of Cologne in the upper half of the escutcheon recalls this time. The chapel in Horperath was built in 1747.KD Kreis Mayen 1, S 239 The three bezants stand for Saint Nicholas’s attribute of three golden globesPfleiderer, Attribute der Heiligen, Ulm 1898, S. 237 and thus represent the village's and the chapel's patron saint.de Lorenzi II, S. 136) Description and explanation of Horperath’s arms

• Saint Nicholas's Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Nikolaus), small aisleless church, Timber framing barrel vault, from 1747.
• Im Ollen 6 – solid house, timber-frame gables, from 1836, but possibly essentially older.
• Zum Lindental 2 – long Quereinhaus (a combination residential and commercial house divided for these two purposes down the middle, perpendicularly to the street), from 1869. Directory of Cultural Monuments in Vulkaneifel district

• Municipality’s official webpage
• Horperath in the collective municipality’s Web pages