Kempen Facts & Customs in Kempen

Former Castle Site Haus Padenberg

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

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.

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.

Heinz Mellen Birthplace

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

Jewish Cemetery Kempen

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

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.

Memorial at the Former Synagogue of Kempen

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A memorial on Umstraße commemorates the Jewish community of Kempen and those of its members who were driven out or killed between 1933 and 1945. It stands near the site of the synagogue destroyed during the November Pogrom of 1938.

Moated Site of the Bollwerk Farm

Ground-monument-protected remains of a moat at a farmstead in Kempen's Schmalbroich district.

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.

Stumbling Stones (Stolpersteine) in Kempen

Small brass plaques set into the pavement across Kempen commemorate residents who were persecuted and murdered under National Socialism. They are part of Gunter Demnig's Europe-wide memorial project.

The "An der Vinnbrück" Redoubt

Remains of a medieval fortified redoubt on the old border between the Archbishopric of Cologne and the County of Guelders, site of the 1284 Treaty of Vinnbrück.

War Memorial Chapel and St. Brigid

A neo-Gothic brick chapel in Kempen-Schmalbroich, built in 1875 and transformed into a war memorial in 1926.

Kempen Facts & Customs