Hermitage and Ringelstein on the Ravensberg

1670 was built on the Ravensberg a two-storey chapel with residential building, where lived in the future, several brothers. These lived on begging, sometimes not bad at all. And some of them are still said to have known how to party. In 1833, the Cologne archbishop demolished the hermitage to put an end to the wild goings-on.
The Ringelstein - an approximately 15 million year old natural quartzite plate - which can still be seen on the site today, served as a foundation for parts of the chapel. In addition, a footfall, a memorial stone and a moat remind of this time.
On the Ravensberg found the oldest evidence of people in the heathland. Already in the Early Paleolithic (the finds date from the period between 200 000 and 180 000 BC) hunters and collectors had their workshop here. Also during the next Middle and Neolithic period people came here to smash the quartzite and process it into hand axes, blades and scratches. In the Middle Ages, the stones were built as "Ravensberger chunks", such. in the coach house of Wissem Castle in Troisdorf.
In 2001, not only a footfall and a memorial stone on the site were renovated and repositioned, since then there is also a new info board, and the path to the mouse path was restored.

At this point once stood a Franciscan clause.

The Hermitage stood here from 1670 to 1833. The Archbishop of Cologne had the building demolished.