Scheid, Rhineland-Palatinate  Scheid is an "Ortsgemeinde" – a municipality belonging to a "Verbandsgemeinde", a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the "Verbandsgemeinde" of Gerolstein, whose seat is in the municipality of Gerolstein. The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth. Scheid is the northwesternmost place in the Vulkaneifel district. It lies roughly 1 km northwest of Hallschlag on a mountain ridge. Its elevation is 593 m above sea level. The name Scheid might best be explained as coming from the German word "Wasserscheide", cognate with, and meaning the same as (at least in some varieties of English) the word “watershed”, for south from Scheid flows the Hallschlager Bach and north from the village flows the Scheider or Gonsbach. Still others derive the name from the road junction here in Roman times, when the road from Trier to Cologne and Aachen branched at what is now Scheid ("scheiden" means “divide” or “split” in German; this is cognate with the English word “shed” ["v"]). On the other hand, placename researchers hold that the name is not German at all. They derive it from the old Celtic word "keito-n", meaning “wood” or “forest” ("cf." Welsh "coedwig" and Breton "koadeg"). In 1276, Scheid had its first documentary mention as a holding of the Counts of Neuenahr. The document itself deals with Count Theoderich von Neuenahr's widow Mechtildis's and her children's pledge of their lordship of Neuenahr and other holdings with the exception of the estate of “Greuel in Scheid” for four years to Archbishop of Cologne Sigfrid. At this time, the village consisted of no more than a few farms. The same document also held the Archbishop to a yearly payment of three Marks from the tolls that he would raise in Scheid to Wincmarcus von Gelzdorf.