Middle Ages
5 places in Kempen
Vinnbrück Treaty Memorial
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.
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.
Museum of Lower Rhine Sacred Art
Housed in Kempen's Baroque Paterskirche, the Museum of Lower Rhine Sacred Art brings together precious goldsmith work and late-Gothic wood carving from the Lower Rhine.
