All places in Kempen

1st Station: The Prophecy of Simeon

Painted high relief of the "Seven Sorrows of Mary" set within a round-arched brick niche.

2nd Station: Flight into Egypt

Brick wayside shrine with a late-19th-century relief, rebuilt and moved north in 1990.

4th Station of the Cross: Mary on the Way of Sorrows

Whitewashed brick wayside shrine featuring a late 19th-century relief of the "Seven Sorrows of Mary."

6th Station: Jesus Dies on the Cross

Wayside shrine in St. Hubert featuring a multi-part terracotta relief by Herbert Mellen, originally housed in a small wayside chapel.

7th Station: Jesus is Taken Down from the Cross

1936 terracotta relief of the Deposition of Christ, serving as a wayside station in Kempen's St. Hubert district.

7th Station: The Entombment of Christ

Roman Catholic wayside shrine dedicated to the 'Seven Sorrows of Mary'; the original Entombment relief is no longer present.

Alte Scheune

4.6(315)· Google

Restaurant with a hall, tavern and beer garden in Kempen-Tönisberg – featuring a menu, buffets and catering.

Antoniuskapelle

4.7(6)· Google

Small 18th-century chapel at an old crossroads – with a slate-clad bell turret and brick altar table.

AquaSol

4.1(2,984)· Google

Sauna and water world with outdoor pool, plus nearly 27,000 square metres of sunbathing lawns, diving facilities, wide slide and sports fields.

AquaSol Kempen

4.3(86)· Google

A combined swimming complex in Kempen with a year-round indoor pool, a seasonal outdoor pool, brine baths and a rooftop sauna garden, run by the Stadtwerke Kempen.

Arnold Janssen Chapel

3.9(602)· Google

A small chapel on the grounds of the Von-Broichhausen-Stift in Kempen that unites a listed 19th-century brick gable with a 1995 devotional space in honour of Saint Arnold Janssen.

BocaDillo — Breakfast & Lunch in Kempen

4.8(487)· Google

Bistro in Kempen's old town serving breakfast, baguettes and a daily changing lunch of German and Middle Eastern cuisine — plus catering and buffets.

Bremmersbruch Nature Reserve

since 1990

An around 20-hectare nature reserve designated in 1990, east of the Grefrath-Niershorst airfield.

Brick Wayside Shrine (formerly "Seven Sorrows of Mary")

Small brick wayside shrine in Kempen featuring a relief of the Seven Sorrows of Mary; formerly known by this name.

Bürgerwald

A green space in Kempen between Hagelkreuz and the outer ring road where the town enables tree donations.

Café himmlisch

4.5(323)· Google

A breakfast café, bistro and gift shop in the heart of Kempen, serving breakfast, cakes and soft-serve ice cream.

Café Paatidaa

4.4(82)· Google

Café in Kempen focusing on breakfast, waffles and coffee.

Christ the King Church

Catholic chapel of ease in Kempen built in the 1990s, known for its striking stained-glass windows by Klaus Balke.

Cross Chapel

An early-17th-century brick chapel on St. Töniser Straße in Kempen, a listed monument since 1983 and the destination of a sandstone Way of the Cross.

Der breite Eschel Nature Reserve

since 1988

A small nature reserve of just over 3 hectares west of the Kempen district of Voesch, protected since 1988.

East-Cambridgeshire-Park

4.4(238)· Google

A roughly 2.6-hectare green space in Kempen – the town's second-largest park – whose name recalls the twinning with the English district of East Cambridgeshire, in place since 1978.

Eis Paradys

4.5(79)· Google

Ice cream café in Kempen offering ice cream, sundaes and ice cream cakes at Engerstraße 30.

Evangelische Kirche Tönisberg

5.0(3)· Google

A Protestant community centre in the Tönisberg district of Kempen, whose present building replaced an earlier wooden church in 1975.

Former Castle Site Haus Padenberg

The remains of a medieval knight's estate near Tönisberg, still surrounded today by a water-filled moat.

Franciscan Friary Kempen

3.6(7)· Google

Secularized Franciscan friary with a Baroque friars' church – today home to the Kramer Museum, town library, and Thomas Archive.

Gedenktafel Alter Bahnhof St. Hubert

At the site of the former St. Hubert railway station, a memorial plaque recalls the old "Schluff" light railway – today a historic place of remembrance on the Lower Rhine.

Georgsbrunnen (War Memorial)

4.4(15)· Google

A 1912 fountain and war memorial on the Buttermarkt in Kempen, crowned by St George doing battle with the dragon.

Gleumeshof (Moated Farmstead)

A once moated, four-winged brick farmstead in Kempen's Schmalbroich district, protected as a ground monument since 1991.

Grabenanlage „Schanze“ (Moated Fortification)

A protected earthwork of ramparts and ditches in Kempen's Schmalbroich district, still readable in the terrain as the relief of an old fortification.

greens café I deli

4.9(128)· Google

Fully plant-based café in Kempen's old town with breakfast, daily-changing cakes, bowls and its own coffee blend.

Gustav-Adolf-Kirche (Swedish Church)

4.7(18)· Google

A small Protestant wooden church in Kempen-St. Hubert, built in 1959 as a complete gift from Sweden.

Gut Heimendahl

4.4(928)· Google

A listed historic manor farm on the edge of town offering insights into farming, everyday farm life, and rural living — in every season.

Gymnasium Thomaeum

since 1659

Founded in 1659 and named after the mystic Thomas à Kempis, the Thomaeum is one of Germany's oldest grammar schools and still an active school today.

Haus Baaken

4.5(4)· Google

A listed half-timbered house in Tönisberg with a Dutch late-Baroque façade, serving as an inn for over 250 years.

Haus Erprath (Tönisberg)

4.4(8)· Google

A former knight's estate in Tönisberg (Kempen) with a 19th-century manor house, listed as a protected monument since 1992.

Haus Steinfunder

A heritage-listed former noble seat with a moated manor house on the edge of the Niers lowlands in the Kempen district of Schmalbroich.

Haus Velde

Former knight's estate near Kempen: a Renaissance building on the edge of the Schlootkuhlen nature reserve, its courtyard coat of arms bearing the year 1527.

Heilig-Geist-Kapelle

4.4(68)· Google

Late Gothic hospital chapel in Kempen that served as a tavern, hair salon and library before becoming a place of quiet retreat again.

Heiligenhäuschen (Wayside Shrine)

A small Catholic wayside shrine with a rendered façade on the path to the Kreuzkapelle in Kempen, a listed monument since 1990.

Heinz Mellen Birthplace

A memorial plaque in Kempen's old town marks the birthplace of dialect poet Heinz Mellen.

Heumischhof Chapel

3.8(5)· Google

A listed brick chapel in Kempen's Schmalbroich district that grew out of a former beet barn and forms part of a four-winged farmstead.

Hospital zum Heiligen Geist

Founded 1390 as a charitable foundation for the poor, now a modern hospital serving the Lower Rhine region.

Hubert‘s Restaurant

4.7(195)· Google

Traditional German cooking with a modern touch: brothers Agron and Meriton Zeqiri have run Hubert's in Kempen-St. Hubert since July 2025.

Jewish Cemetery Kempen

Listed Jewish cemetery with 94 gravestones dating from 1845 to 1944.

Kempen (Niederrhein) Station

4.4(166)· Google

Station on the Lower Rhine line northeast of the old town, home to the volunteer-run KuBa cultural station in its entrance building.

Kempen Castle

since 1396

4.4(353)· Google

Alongside Zülpich Castle, it's considered the best-preserved 14th-century Electoral Cologne stronghold — with extensive original masonry.

Kempen District Court

since 1892

3.2(16)· Google

Heritage-listed courthouse on Hessenring, home since 1879 to the district court serving Kempen, Grefrath and Tönisvorst.

Kempener Eismanufaktur

4.5(169)· Google

Ice cream parlour with its own production on Studentenacker in Kempen, offering vegan options and open daily in summer.

Kempener Lichtspiele

4.6(1,714)· Google

A tradition-rich family cinema on Kempen's Buttermarkt – in operation since 1919, today with four screens, 4K laser projection and its own arthouse programme.

Kuhtor

4.5(264)· Google

Built around 1350, the Kuhtor is the only surviving tower gate of Kempen's original four city gates.

Landbäckerei Stinges

4.5(200)· Google

A branch of the Lower Rhine bakery chain Stinges on Breite Straße — a family business from Brüggen-Lüttelbracht, family-owned since 1852.

Landgasthof Haus Bellen

4.5(268)· Google

A country inn over a century old between Kempen and Hüls: Mediterranean and hearty German cooking, a beer garden and a barrier-free bowling alley.

Landwehr

Near Hinterorbroich in Kempen's St. Hubert district, a section of a medieval Landwehr from around 1350 has survived — a protected archaeological monument and one of the last remnants of the former border fortification of the Electoral-Cologne district of Kempen.

Landwehr Section at Kleinheierweg

A surviving section of a medieval border earthwork (Landwehr) at Kleinheierweg in Kempen's Schmalbroich district, protected as a ground monument since 1992.

Las Tapas

4.7(410)· Google

Spanish tapas restaurant on Klosterstraße in Kempen, serving cold and warm tapas alongside changing daily specials.

Luise von Duesberg Gymnasium Kempen

since 1867

The LvD on Berliner Allee looks back on a school history that began in 1867 as a girls' secondary school – today it is a Gymnasium with a strong music and STEM profile.

Mahnmal vor der Burg

5.0(5)· Google

War memorial standing directly in front of Burg Kempen, commemorating the two World Wars. Erected in 1939 and created by Helmut Hentrich and Hans Heuser.

Marienkapelle Tönisberg

4.5(2)· Google

Small chapel of the Virgin Mary on the hill of Tönisberg, consecrated on 8 May 2005, built at the wish of Erika Hoenen.

Matthias Chapel

5.0(1)· Google

A small brick chapel in Kempen's Stiegerheide, built in 2002 by the Matthias Brotherhood as a place of pilgrimage and devotion.

Memorial at the Former Synagogue of Kempen