What is "ulmen"

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.

Ulmen is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Cochem-Zell, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Ulmen.

The Verbandsgemeinde Ulmen consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):

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1. Alflen
2. Auderath
3. Bad Bertrich
4. Beuren
5. Büchel
6. Filz
7. Gevenich
8. Gillenbeuren

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9. Kliding
10. Lutzerath
11. Schmitt
12. Ulmen
13. Urschmitt
14. Wagenhausen
15. Weiler
16. Wollmerath

Ulmen is a Mapudungun word meaning "rich man". In Mapuche society, the wealthy men were usually the loncos and would often be the influential leaders of their rehue and aillarehue. If skilled in war, like the military leader Caupolicán, they were sometimes elected toqui.