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Reinartzhof Ruins and Memorial Chapel

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Reinartzhof Ruins and Memorial Chapel

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Reinartzhof Ruins and Memorial Chapel

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

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

October 9, 2024

By the 20th century, a hermitage (13th century) on the old pilgrimage route between Aachen and Trier had become a small settlement of 3 farms and 6 families, the Reinartzhof. Located in the middle of the lonely Venn, the settlement was largely self-sufficient, without electricity or tap water.
Source: euregio-im-bild.de/kultur-geschichte-und-wissenschaft/denkmale-und-geschichtliches/fotostrecken/die-ruine-des-reinartzhofs-im-hohen-venn.html

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Bernd 🌲🦌🍄🥾

December 23, 2024

The Reinartzhof was later built from the St. Reinart hospice, which was formerly located on the Reinart.
However, the evacuation of the Reinartzhof was announced by royal decree on June 26, 1958.
Reason:
As the Reinartzhof settlement is in the catchment area of the Weser dam and there is therefore a risk of water pollution, it is expropriated and must be evacuated. Within three years, i.e. by 1961, the residents were to leave their farms. With heavy hearts, the farming families moved out of the isolated hamlet one after the other. "Be that as it may, the mild pressure from above, supported by appropriate compensation payments, caused one farmer after another to emigrate and find a new home and work somewhere at the foot of the High Fens." In 1971, even the picturesque Oberhof was set on fire, and what had been spared by the fire was reduced to rubble by pickaxes and bulldozers.
Source: reinartzhof.pfadfinder-raeren.be/geschichte.html

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Sabine 🦁

September 8, 2019

A place that makes you think. The history of the Reinhardtshöfe is beautifully described on display boards. A hut invites you to rest. If you look at the fallow land, you can still see the floor plans of the buildings.

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Wanderklaus

October 6, 2019

This old property was dissolved as part of the creation of the Weser dam because the agriculture would harm the planned drinking water storage. The residents were resettled.

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Sabine 🦁

September 15, 2019

Impressive, a chapel as a memorial on a patch of land where a whole village had to give way.

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Sandra

November 4, 2019

A pretty place of remembrance.

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R.Bungartz

September 15, 2019

It has become quiet on the "Reinart" since the last residents left the Reinartzhof in the middle of the High Fens. That was in 1971. And the last residents were Felix and Nikolaus Gillet and his wife Josephine. They had stubbornly resisted the order to leave their farm (Oberhof).
Almost 50 years ago, exactly on June 26, 1958, the farms on the "Reinart" were expropriated by royal decree because they were located in the catchment area of the Weser; The water of the Weser feeds the Weser Reservoir near Eupen, which behind the 410 meter long and 63 meter high dam wall can store around 25 million water on an area of 125 hectares and is extremely important for the drinking water supply of the region.
A few remains of the wall, information boards and a small chapel are reminiscent of Reinartzhof and the people who lived and worked there in the solitude of the High Fens. Reinartzhof is located on the old pilgrimage route from Aachen to Trier. That is probably the reason why the “Reinart” is located on the new “Eifelsteig”, which also leads from Aachen to Trier.
Source: Aachener Zeitung, May 9th, 2008 edition

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Mietzi

December 4, 2016

History of the Reinartzhof:
heugeve-roetgen.de/History/index_htm_files/REINARTZHOF.pdf

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

October 29, 2021

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A family chronicle by Lilly Klinkenberg (Roetgen, March 1992)

heugeve-roetgen.de/History/history-2.htm

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Ela Ado

May 13, 2018

A nice place for a break

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September 15, 2019

A place for a quick stop.

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Sandra

November 4, 2019

A beautiful place of remembrance.

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1967Bike-Didi

February 7, 2022

In 1960, the last residents moved away from Reinatzhof by royal decree so that the nearby dam would not be polluted.
Before that there was a hamlet here that was on many pilgrimage routes. Mainly towards Moresnet or Trier.

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Andrea 🎒🥾 & Chibsi 🐕🐾

August 17, 2017

A nice place for a rest. There are several benches and a shelter.

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Shay

September 9, 2018

A very nicely located rest area, especially in the morning.

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Wanderklaus

October 6, 2019

The old chapel and the yard were dissolved as part of the creation of the drinking water reservoir Weser dam. The remains are still to be found here.

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Etienne Pr

February 26, 2020

Well-maintained hut, very well suited for a cozy break.

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Nordeifelman

September 23, 2018

Here we finally found a place to stay in the pouring rain

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Wanderklaus

October 6, 2019

The remains of the old chapel. The farms were dissolved in the context of the construction of the Weser dam as drinking water storage.

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Udo🥾🥾

June 23, 2022

An ideal place for a rest on the Eifelsteig

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Andi

September 5, 2023

There is a beautiful refuge and a chapel here. There is basically nothing left to see of the old buildings.

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