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Regierungsbezirk Düsseldorf

St. Matthias Chapel in Hardter Wald

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St. Matthias Chapel in Hardter Wald

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

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1. Waldniel Marketplace – Lakeside Beach at Heidweiher loop from Hehn

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2. Picnic Shelter in Hardter Wald – Fuchsbau loop from Hardt

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3. Kreuzweiher Pond with Fountain – Entrance to Schloss Wickrath loop from Rheydt-Odenkirchen

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Franz Josef Klingen

May 20, 2023

The Matthias figure in the chapel was created by the sculptor Josef Wirth (*07/05/1902 in Mönchengladbach, +10/30/1934 in the St. Antonius-Hospital Waldniel). "His whole life was devoted to religious art," says his obituary. He also designed the wooden signpost in front of the Hotel Lindenhof in the center of Hardt.

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Franz Josef Klingen

June 15, 2023

Everywhere on the Lower Rhine, on the Middle Rhine, but especially in the Eifel, you can find around 200 of these pilgrim symbols from the St. Matthias brotherhoods. They can be stelae, crosses, wayside shrines, stones or small chapels. The brotherhoods set them up on their way to St. Matthias in Trier. Some pilgrim signs are several hundred years old. The main pilgrimage season is the time between Ascension Day and Pentecost every year, when the brotherhoods travel with thousands of pilgrims on foot. They usually use ancient pilgrimage roads, some of which are Roman roads.

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October 21, 2023

They are familiar in the Rhineland and southern Germany: crosses, wayside shrines or little saints' houses. Often donated as a thank you for protection from harm, they still shape the landscape today.

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

St. Matthias Chapel in Hardter Wald

1. Waldniel Marketplace – Lakeside Beach at Heidweiher loop from Hehn

2. Picnic Shelter in Hardter Wald – Fuchsbau loop from Hardt

3. Kreuzweiher Pond with Fountain – Entrance to Schloss Wickrath loop from Rheydt-Odenkirchen

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