Meroder Waldのおすすめランニングルート

The Laufenburg was built in the 12th century by the Dukes of Limburg. Since the 17th century it has only existed as a ruin. In 1895 the battlements of the round corner towers were renewed. The current restaurant is closed on Mondays.

The monastery is the setting for the historical crime novel Mönchsgesang by Günter Krieger.

Witnesses from the past, from a time when the Christian faith determined people's lives.

"On the evening of March 24, 1835, the bells in Echtz rang the fire alarm because the monastery building and church in Schwarzenbroich were on fire and badly damaged. The damaged buildings were not repaired. The entire complex was sold a year later to the Count (today: Prince) of Merode. After 496 years, the monastery returned to the hands of the founding family, who are still the owners today. The ruins were a popular place for excursions until the Second World War. During the Battle of the Hürtgen Forest (1944), the remaining ruins were destroyed down to the foundations.” Source: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Schwarzenbroich Further information can also be found here: https://www.kuladig.de/Object-View/O-55830-20121023-6 https://www.eifel.de/go/sehenswertes-detail/klosterruine_schwarzenbroich.html

Schwarzenbroich Monastery is a ruin in the forest between Gürzenich and Schevenhütte in the district of Düren, North Rhine-Westphalia in what is now the municipality of Langerwehe. The Crusaders of the Order of the Holy Cross, OSC, lived in the monastery.

Well-developed parking lot on the outskirts. Within a 1 minute walk you are in nature

If you can write it like that, a nice, not so sterile, natural military cemetery.

The cemetery is on the Marienweg, which leads to the Schwarzenbroich monastery ruins, on the northern edge of the former Hürtgenwald combat zone. The name Marienbildchen is reminiscent of the Princess of Merode-Westerloo, who had an image of Mary attached to an oak tree, which has now been replaced by a wooden statue of Mary and is also the station of an annual procession. In this forest cemetery, a total of 226 fallen German soldiers rest under the protective canopy of the trees: 128 in individual graves and 98 in two collective graves; 170 are known by name. They fell in bitter fighting from November to mid-December 1944 between Merode and Wenau during the "Battle of the Hürtgen Forest". Many of the dead are 18-20 year old paratroopers."