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Vinnbrück Treaty Memorial

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A small memorial house of fieldstone brick beside a bend in the B9 in Kempen-Tönisberg recalls, with a ceramic relief, the 1284 Treaty of Vinnbrück – a medieval alliance that echoed four years later in the Battle of Worringen.

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.

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.

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