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Bornhofen Monastery Pilgrimage Site

Bornhofen Monastery Pilgrimage Site

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Bornhofen Monastery Pilgrimage Site

Recommended by 106 hikers out of 117

This Highlight is in a protected area

Please check local regulations for: UNESCO Welterbe Kulturlandschaft Oberes Mittelrheintal

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Location: Kamp-Bornhofen, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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1. View of Kamp-Bornhofen – Hindenburghöhe Viewpoint loop from Kamp-Bornhofen

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2. Liebenstein Castle – View of Kamp-Bornhofen loop from Kestert

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3. View of Kamp-Bornhofen – Sterrenberg Castle loop from Kamp-Bornhofen

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Hunsbuckel 🇺🇦

October 30, 2022

Impressive church building with an attached monastery
kloster-bornhofen.de

Most pilgrim groups come from the diocese of Limburg and the neighboring dioceses of Trier, Cologne and Mainz.

What no other pilgrimage site in Germany can boast of are the boat processions to Bornhofen. Even in the Middle Ages, a boat procession came every year from Cologne-Maria Lyskirchen. In 1842, the poet Guido Görres wrote the pilgrimage song “Guide through the waves” (No. 147), which is well known far beyond the borders, especially for these boat pilgrimages to Bornhofen.

This also makes the large picture painted by children on the retaining wall of the sports field facing the towpath on the Rhine understandable, which deals with this “wave”, also literally.

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Kathrin unterwegs

October 26, 2020

Bornhofen Monastery is a Franciscan monastery with St. Mary's pilgrimage church in Kamp-Bornhofen (Bornhofen district) on the Rhine in the Limburg diocese. It lies below the steep slate rock with the hostile brothers Burg Sterrenberg and Burg Liebenstein on the right bank of the Rhine about 20 km south of Koblenz and is one of the oldest and most important pilgrimage sites in the Middle Rhine.

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Bornhofen

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Hans-Joachim

June 26, 2022

I'm not sure but I think it's a youth hostel

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Location: Kamp-Bornhofen, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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Bornhofen Monastery Pilgrimage Site

1. View of Kamp-Bornhofen – Hindenburghöhe Viewpoint loop from Kamp-Bornhofen

2. Liebenstein Castle – View of Kamp-Bornhofen loop from Kestert

3. View of Kamp-Bornhofen – Sterrenberg Castle loop from Kamp-Bornhofen

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