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North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Steinfeld Monastery

North Rhine-Westphalia

Cologne District

Steinfeld Monastery

Highlight • Religious Site

Steinfeld Monastery

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Mountain biking

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Gravel riding

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Nordic walking

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Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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Tips

June 29, 2016

Hiking

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.

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October 4, 2022

Hiking

The extremely impressive monastery church in the Eifel town of Steinfeld houses the grave of Saint Hermann-Josef, who lived and worked here as a Premonstratensian monk. Based on a legend from his childhood in Cologne - look there "Basilika Sankt Maria im Kapitol", one of the twelve large Romanesque churches in the cathedral city - you will always find fresh apples there as well as here at his high grave, which cannot be overlooked in the central aisle of the basilica, that the visitors leave here.

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May 21, 2016

Hiking

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 …

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Entrance to Steinfeld Abbey – Steinfeld Monastery loop from Naturpark Hohes Venn-Eifel

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths.

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Entrance to Steinfeld Abbey – Steinfeld Monastery loop from Kall

13.7km

03:58

350m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths.

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#3.

Entrance to Steinfeld Abbey – Steinfeld Monastery loop from Urft (Steinfeld)

17.1km

04:45

310m

310m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Easily walkable paths.

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Elevation 510 m

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Location: Kall, Euskirchen, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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