Hiking Highlight
Recommended by 1433 out of 1470 hikers
This Highlight is in a protected area
Please check local regulations for: Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel
Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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The approach is a bit tedious, but it's worth it. The Steinfeld Monastery, with its basilica, is one of the most important medieval architectural monuments in the Rhineland. The monastery café and a small monastery shop invite you to pause and browse.
June 29, 2016
Kloster Steinfeld in the Eifel is a former Premonstratensian abbey with an important basilica from the early 12th century. Visible from afar on a hill in the south of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality Kall, the "Eifelkloster" with few surrounding houses forms the district Steinfeld.
Since 1923, the monastery has been owned by the Salvatorian Order, which maintains the Hermann-Josef-Kolleg Steinfeld, a grammar school, the private art academy Kloster Steinfeld and the Franziskus-Jordan-Gästehaus in Steinfeld. After the Order wanted to close the boarding school already at the end of the school year 2011/2012, this could be averted by a parents' initiative. But the remaining 15 students were not enough, and the boarding school was finally closed at the end of the 2012/2013 school year.
(Source: wikipedia.org)
May 21, 2016
Very artistic and impressive basilica with a lot of charisma.
August 5, 2019
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Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
4.6
(37)
135
01:33
5.49km
110m
4.8
(178)
791
02:56
10.5km
190m
4.8
(24)
120
05:15
19.1km
300m