Top 9 Caves 메르치히 주변

As long as the L170 is closed, the caves can be viewed in peace.

In the footsteps of the Romans.

A beautiful mystical place.

Walnut trees above the fisherman's house/pond

Recently a lot of green was removed so that you can see even more entrances to caves. There are a few holes in the chain link fence so that you can also get in. However, inside the entrances to the "hall" or possibly other rooms are unfortunately bricked up. I guess because of the risk of collapse, because there have been landslides in this area.

A beautiful place of worship, the grotto surmounted by a cross and in the center a statue of Our Lady, on the pedestal the inscription "Ave Maria". With these words “Ave Maria, gratia plena” (“Hail Mary, full of grace”) the angel's greeting to Our Lady begins as he brings the heavenly message to Mary, who lives in Nazareth and who is betrothed to Joseph, that she is Jesus To bring Christ, the Son of God, into the world. The text has become a widespread prayer that the faithful address to Our Lady to invoke her intercession or to express her gratitude. Some votive tablets testify to this.

The Marian pilgrimage site of Lourdes is located in the French Pyrenees and is visited by a large number of people every year, including many sick people who are hoping for a cure. The devotional image of Our Lady has become widespread - not only in France - everywhere, as here in Greimerath, believers have built Lourdes grottos. The ecclesiastical commemoration day "Our Lady in Lourdes" is on February 11th, this is the anniversary of the apparition of Mary (1858), when Our Lady appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a rock grotto not far from Lourdes. Bernadette later became a nun and died at the age of only 35. On December 8th (the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary) in 1933, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI. The day of remembrance of the Lourdes Madonna is also World Day of the Sick.

Lourdes grotto The grotto, built by Matthias Staudt and Matthias Diederich, (1906) after your return from a Lourdes pilgrimage, they recreated the pilgrimage church in Lourdes, which you clearly succeeded in doing. A plaque in front of the Lourdes grotto gives the year 1912 as the construction date. Http://www.greimerath-hochwald.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdheiten