Local history

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

since 1659

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.

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.

Luise von Duesberg Gymnasium Kempen

since 1867

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.

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.