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Calvary of Moresnet-Chapelle

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Calvary of Moresnet-Chapelle

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Calvary of Moresnet-Chapelle

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Location: Plombières, Verviers, Liège, Wallonie, Wallonia, Belgium

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1. Forest Path in the Eifel – Junction at Geusenweg loop from Holset

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04:56

340m

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2. Source of the Göhl River – View of Gemmenich and Belgium loop from Gemmenich

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04:20

260m

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3. Source of the Göhl River – View of Gemmenich and Belgium loop from Plombières

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04:44

310m

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

October 11, 2024

Immediately after their return to Moresnet in 1895, the Franciscans decided to build a Stations of the Cross with 14 Stations of the Cross. Through elaborate landscaping, a flat meadow north of the chapel was transformed into a hilly landscape covering almost 14 acres.

The Stations of the Cross, designed like a park, are now one of the most important and impressive sites of their kind in Europe. Year after year, numerous pilgrims come here to relive the Passion of Jesus Christ in silent devotion.

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Hoekschop

November 1, 2019

After returning to Moresnet in 1894, the Franciscans, on the initiative of their President Johannes Ruiter, decided to build a crossroads. It was only through the brother Quintilian Borren that the work could be completed until early 1904.
14 large stations were created in the manner of a grotto made of Belgian quarry stones. They are covered on the outside with lava stones and on the inside with dripstones on the ceilings. The inner back walls are decorated in a mosaic-like manner with many details. The stations of the cross were created by the Cologne sculptor Wilhelm Albermann from French sandstone.
A specialty is the XII. Station, the crucifixion of Christ. It is designed as a calvary with space for services. The relief in the chapel of the XII. Station in the represents a crucifixion group with St. Francis depicted. In 1903, Mary's representation and that of the apostle John, the crosses of the thieves and that of the captain were added above the grotto. They were designed by the Aachen sculptor Lambert Piedboeuf. In 1981 the figure of Christ and the figures of the two thieves were replaced by bronze sculptures based on a design by Franciscan artist Laurentius Ulrich Englisch. They were badly weathered.
For me it is one of the most beautiful ways of the cross, a visit is worthwhile!

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Fcl

May 7, 2020

I was here on foot from Aachen over 50 years ago with my grandparents and my parents. Very memorable. And a year ago in the heaviest rain! Also on foot!

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Elevation 220 m

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Calvary of Moresnet-Chapelle

1. Forest Path in the Eifel – Junction at Geusenweg loop from Holset

2. Source of the Göhl River – View of Gemmenich and Belgium loop from Gemmenich

3. Source of the Göhl River – View of Gemmenich and Belgium loop from Plombières

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