Local history
5 places in Kempen
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.
Gymnasium Thomaeum
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.
Luise von Duesberg Gymnasium Kempen
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.
Municipal Kramer Museum
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A museum of Lower Rhine domestic culture and craftsmanship set in a Baroque Franciscan friary, founded in 1912 around Konrad Kramer's collection.
