The municipality lies on the riverMoselle and is surrounded by steepslate slopes. Vineyards in Klotten include Burg Coraidelstein, Brauneberg and Rosenberg.
In 698, Klotten had its first documentary mention. ThePolish queenRicheza, Count Palatine Ezzo's daughter andEmperor Otto II's granddaughter, quite probably stayed with her three children between 1040 and 1049 in Klotten, where she had herself built achapel (Nikolauskirche, orSaint Nicholas's Church) and a dwelling tower, which was linked by a bridge to the chapel. Upon her death on 21 March 1063, she bequeathed all that she owned to the BrauweilerBenedictine Abbey nearCologne. Hersarcophagus stands today inCologne Cathedral, to the left below the High Altar, the "Epiphany Shrine".
The German blazon reads:Von Silber und Blau gespalten. Vorn in Silber ein roter Torturm mit 3 Zinnen, offenem Tor und 3 (2:1) offenen Fenstern. In Blau ein aus dem Schildfuß wachsender goldener Bischofsstab mit Krümme nach außen, darunter im Schildfuß ein schräglinkes, silbernes Wellenbad.
The municipality'sarms might in Englishheraldic language be described thus: Per pale argent issuant from base a gate tower embattled of three gules with three windows and gate of the field, and azure issuant from base a bishop's staff sinister Or surmounted in base by a bendlet sinister wavy of the first.
The following are listed buildings or sites inRhineland-Palatinate’s Directory of Cultural Monuments:
Burg Coraidelstein (monumental zone) –castle apparently founded by Count PalatineHerman I (last mentioned in 996), important expansion in 1338, “new structure on the fortifications at Klotten” built in 1545, never destroyed, sold for demolition in 1830; still preserved: essentiallyRomanesquekeep withGothic casing, castle house with round tower, side building (in the southeast a manor house built in 1543–1547 with remnants of three round towers), villa from 1905, renovated in 1955
Am Mühlenberg – waysidechapel, 17th century; niche cross, 17th century;basalt wayside cross, from 1683
Bahnhofstraße –railway station; one-floor quarrystone building, partly timber-frame, early 20th century
Bahnhofstraße 6 –timber-frame house, partly solid, plastered and slated, half-hipped roof, 16th century
Obere Kirchstraße/corner of Brühlstraße – wayside chapel, 19th century; niche cross, from 1599
Reuschelstraße 6/7 – two timber-frame houses, partly solid, about 1700, shed; whole complex
Schulstraße –Saint Maximin'sCatholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Maximin); Romanesque west tower, built higher in 1564, originally twin-naved, south chapel from the 16th century, in 1868 remodelled into an entrance hall while nave was expanded into a three-navedhall church; bronze door boss, 12th century; at the graveyard 42 grave crosses, earliest from 1507; tomb, 19th century; Late Gothic stone cross, earlier half of the 15th century; warriors’ memorial;Crucifixion group, 19th century; whole complex with old graveyard and rectory
Schulstraße – wayside cross, from 1657
Schulstraße 3 – former tithing house; quarrystone building, partly timber-frame, 18th century
Schulstraße 4 – door lintel with engravings, about 1050
Jewish graveyard – 14 gravestones, oldest from 1878
Chapel withWay of the Cross –aisleless church with timber-frame porch; two crosses, from 1637 and 1679; grave cross, 18th century; Way of the Cross, steles with reliefs, late 19th or early 20th century
Kavelocherhof – chapel with relief,Trinity relief, 18th century
Way of the Cross – steles with reliefs
Northwest of Klotten – wayside crosses, niche cross, from 1652; two cross fragments
Nearby on the Moselle heights is found the Klotten Wilderness and Leisure Park (Wild- und Freizeitpark Klotten). Also worth seeing is the Dortebachtal Nature Conservation Area (Naturschutzgebiet Dortebachtal).
Parish Church
Steeple
Plaque with Klotten's and partner municipality Berlaimont's coats of arms
Berlaimont,Nord,France since 1972
(in German)