Οι καλύτερες διαδρομές τρεξίματος Meroder Wald

Still very nice, the oak is there!

The Laufenburg was built in the 12th century by the Dukes of Limburg. Since the 17th century it has only existed as a ruin. In 1895 the battlements of the round corner towers were renewed. The current restaurant is closed on Mondays.

Next to the door of the listed church there is a glass case containing the stamp for the pilgrims on the Way of St. James.

Well-developed parking lot on the outskirts. Within a 1 minute walk you are in nature

If you can write it like that, a nice, not so sterile, natural military cemetery.

A first church in Schevenhütte, first mentioned in a document in 1525, was built between 1664 and 1668 with funds from the couple Richmudis and Theodor von Lees. Previously there was only a small chapel on this site. This church was a simple hall church made of quarry stone with a pre-built bell tower. This building stood on today's church forecourt. Schevenhütte was initially the rectorate of the parish of St. Michael in Lendersdorf assumed and was separated from Lendersdorf on December 6, 1699 by the Archbishop of Cologne Joseph Clemens of Bavaria and raised to an independent parish. At that time the church was still dedicated to the Holy Trinity.[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Josef_(Schevenh%C3%BCtte)

The cemetery is on the Marienweg, which leads to the Schwarzenbroich monastery ruins, on the northern edge of the former Hürtgenwald combat zone. The name Marienbildchen is reminiscent of the Princess of Merode-Westerloo, who had an image of Mary attached to an oak tree, which has now been replaced by a wooden statue of Mary and is also the station of an annual procession. In this forest cemetery, a total of 226 fallen German soldiers rest under the protective canopy of the trees: 128 in individual graves and 98 in two collective graves; 170 are known by name. They fell in bitter fighting from November to mid-December 1944 between Merode and Wenau during the "Battle of the Hürtgen Forest". Many of the dead are 18-20 year old paratroopers."

As a memorial to the endless number of war dead, such places - usually referred to as "war graves" or "soldiers' cemetery", sometimes also "honorary cemetery" - are still very important today. "Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace, as you said." However, the many people buried here were by no means divorced in peace, but became victims of the war and an inhuman tyranny. The most important and at the same time everlasting function of the soldiers' or honorary cemeteries or war cemeteries is therefore to keep the memory of this suffering alive and – every generation anew (!) – to remind people to keep peace in the long term.