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Churches & Sacred Sites

30 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.

Antoniuskapelle

4.7(6)· Google

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

Arnold Janssen Chapel

3.9(592)· 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jewish Cemetery Kempen

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

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.

Mennikes-Heiligenhäuschen

3.8(5)· Google

A wayside shrine from 1664 on Schauteshütte in St. Hubert – one of the oldest of its kind in the Kempen area.

Muttergotteshäuschen (Wayside Shrine)

Kempen's oldest wayside shrine to the Virgin Mary on Ellenstraße dates back to a 1540 endowment and is listed as historic monument no. 121.

New Apostolic Church Kempen

4.3(3)· Google

Community centre of the New Apostolic Church on Birkenallee in Kempen – a place for services and congregational life.

Seven Sorrows of Mary

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

St. Antonius (Tönisberg)

4.2(12)· Google

Neo-Gothic brick church of 1894, incorporating the 47-metre west tower of its predecessor building.

St. Hubertus (St. Hubert)

4.5(2)· Google

Neo-Gothic brick church in Kempen-St. Hubert with a Gothic tower from 1524 and a Klais organ hailed by experts as a tonal monument.

St. Josef

4.5(28)· Google

Modern Catholic filial church featuring stained-glass windows by Josef Ebnöther and works by Ulrich Rückriem and Tisa von der Schulenburg.

St. Mariä Geburt

4.4(5)· Google

Gothic hall church in Kempen whose rich furnishings—three Antwerp altarpieces—survived WWII bombing thanks to timely evacuation.

St. Peter

The oldest building in Kempen and Viersen district: a Romanesque chapel said to date back to around 900 AD.

Thomaskirche

4.5(35)· Google

The Protestant Thomaskirche in Kempen was built in 1909–1910 to plans by the Mülheim architect Heinrich Heidsiek and consecrated on 17 July 1910.

Wayside Shrine "Seven Sorrows of Mary"

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

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