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North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf District

Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf

Viersen

Kempen

Kempen Windmill and City Fortifications

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North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf District

Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf

Viersen

Kempen

Kempen Windmill and City Fortifications

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Location: Kempen, Viersen, Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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2. War Memorial Kempen – Restored old railway line. loop from Kempen

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3. Kempen Old Town – Buttermarkt Kempen loop from Kempen (Niederrhein)

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Bucky

January 28, 2021

Kempen is a beautiful city. Medieval houses with castle and fortifications.

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October 9, 2020

In 1288 the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg was defeated in the Battle of Worringen, and the archbishopric of Kempen, which represented the northern branch of the Archdiocese of Cologne, was threatened from several sides.

That is why Kempen was fortified from around 1290 - initially only with an earth wall that was reinforced with palisades and a ditch. The ardent zeal of the Kempeners in the fortification work was rewarded shortly afterwards with the award of city rights.

Between 1270 and 1320 the final fortification was built. An 1830-meter-long wall enclosed the city in an almost circular manner, broken up by four gates. Four higher towers are said to have been built in connection with the first wall. As the curtain wall grew, an additional 16 semicircular towers were placed in front of it, which ended in a straight line on the city side with the course of the wall. - The material for building the wall was made of bricks that were burned in the Peschbenden between Vorster Strasse and Peschweg and on the Ziegelheide west of Kempen.

Two moats closed off the Kempener Rundling, as the city area was later called, from the outside. - At the end a windmill was placed on the wall.

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saskia

February 13, 2024

Beautiful old city, well preserved, including the walls around the city with mill.

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Location: Kempen, Viersen, Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Kempen Windmill and City Fortifications

1. Kurkölnische Landesburg Kempen – Buttermarkt Kempen loop from Kempen

2. War Memorial Kempen – Restored old railway line. loop from Kempen

3. Kempen Old Town – Buttermarkt Kempen loop from Kempen (Niederrhein)

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