Roehl is a bit SSE of Bitburg. Bitburg was both a city and a Kreis (land county) within the larger Regierungsbezirk (Civil Administration) of Trier, Rheinland. This area was formerly part of the Duchy of Luxembourg. After 1815 it was annexed to Prussia, and eventually Luxembourg became a Grand Duchy [a small reward to a county which gave up more than 2/3 of it's land in the 19th century to Prussia (i.e.Germany) and Belgium]. Gretchen Leisen