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For the history of the Palmersdorfer Hof, see e.g. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmersdorfer_Hof or https://palmersdorferhof.de/geschichte/geschichte.php

Elector Clemens August had the former Franciscan monastery church, consecrated in 1493, converted into the palace church of "St. Mary of the Angels" in 1735. The orangery with a two-story oratory was built between the single-nave building and the palace. Inside and out, the church appears rather plain, but chapel-like niches and pointed-arch ribbed vaults structure the space. The high altar, made of colored stucco marble and extending from the entire choir loft to the vault, is a masterpiece. After being damaged in World War II, the high altar was extensively restored. Today, St. Mary of the Angels is one of the most beautiful Baroque churches in Germany.

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Good bypass of the stupid Luxemburger Strasse

The fountain was built in the 19th century and is a relic from the time when Brühl played an important role in the iron and steel industry. The fountain symbolizes the industrial development of the city and the importance of the ironworks for the local economy.

In the former pilgrimage chapel, the viewer is transported to the Orient. Things are turbulent. Women are drawing water from the well. In a tent, a man is telling a story with expansive gestures. A boy is playing the flute. Shepherds are camping with their sheep... The oriental nativity scene with the carved figures... has been set up since 2011. (Text source: information sheet)

Station No. 47 - Hürth-Fischenich Use of broken Roman canal rubble in the castle "A particularly beautiful example of the reuse of broken Roman canal rubble as building material can be found in Hürth-Fischenich, where almost the entire castle was built from this material. The ruins of the former castle in the center of the town are now surrounded by a small residential complex. Nevertheless, the monument is still easy to get to. Fischenich Castle was built in the 12th/13th century; the castle was owned by knights of the same name. In the preserved remains of the castle masonry, it is clearly visible where the material for building the castle was obtained in the Middle Ages. We can see blocks of rammed concrete (Opus caementicium) to which a hydraulic, reddish plaster (Opus signinum) and a calcareous sinter deposit adhere. This makes it clear that this material is reused sections of the Roman Eifel aqueduct to Cologne. This type of stone extraction was common in the Middle Ages. the route of the Roman Eifel aqueduct. Since residential buildings in the Middle Ages were generally built of half-timbering, we find the building material from the Roman canal quarry primarily in churches, monasteries and castles. Fischenich Castle was destroyed in the fighting in the Truchsess War (1584) and has been a ruin ever since." https://www.roemerkanal.de/bauwerk

"The neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Martinus was built in 1890 by Franz Schmitz, who later became master builder of Strasbourg Cathedral, but the squat west tower of the previous building from 1728 was preserved. The church has an old bell from 1430, a "Descent from the Cross after Rubens", probably a Flemish portrait from the end of the 16th/beginning of the 17th century, and a baroque organ facade. On the outside wall of the choir hangs the "Five Wounds Cross", a mission cross from 1760 that does not bear a corpus, but only the five wounds of the crucified Christ..." https://www.huerth.de/fischenich.php#:~:text=Martinus,Vorg%C3%A4ngerbaus%20von%201728%20erhalten%20blieb.