Count Sternberg-Manderscheid acquired in the 1803 Reichsdeputationshauptschluss as the landholder, among other things, the holdings formerly belonging to the monasteries at Weissenau and Schussenried in Upper Swabia to offset his loss of Blankenheim, Jünkerath, Gerolstein and Dollendorf.
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Burgbering 1-20, former railwaymen’s settlement Neue Kolonie (monumental zone), from about 1920-1925, housing estate laid out in a ring shape in traditional local style with a gatehouse, six semidetached houses and a terrace of six bungalows, along with a central yard/garden enclosed by walls with gates or small outbuildings.
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Schwarzer Pfad 1, 3 and 5 (monumental zone) – three houses (railway attendants’ houses or DEMAG works dwellings?), possibly late 19th century, two-storey buildings with small-block walls with knee walls and flat saddle roofs, with wings from the time of building and outbuildings in the back.
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Once, there was a junction in Jünkerath where the now abandoned and dismantled Vennquerbahn branched off the Eifelbahn, leading by way of Losheim at the Belgian border to Malmedy.
In Lissendorf, the historical Dümpelfeld–Lissendorf railway, known as the Middle Ahrtalbahn (“Ahrtal Railway”, Jünkerath–Lissendorf–Hillesheim–Ahrdorf–Dümpelfeld) branched off.