Walkway
The Wandelweg in Kamp-Lintfort in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia is an urban historical hiking trail along the renatured stream of the Große Goorley . It was opened on May 15, 2010 and connects the city history of both districts with its 16 stations. The starting point of the approx. 2.5 km long path is the Kamp monastery.
The state horticultural show will take place there in 2020 .
Stations
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1. Abbey Church
51 ° 30 '10.1 " N , 6 ° 30' 56.9" E
The Kamp Abbey is considered the oldest Cistercian monastery in the German-speaking area. According to tradition, it goes back to a foundation by the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich I, in 1123. The previous building of today's brick church from 1150 was almost completely destroyed during the Truchsessian War in 1585. Only the top of the choir remained. It was rebuilt around 1683. In 1714 it was supplemented in the north-eastern part with the hexagonal Lady Chapel. During the French rule, the monastery status was withdrawn and the building was only used as a parish church.
The valuable church inventory includes the richly decorated organ by the organ builder Johann Jacob Brummerts (1668–1729) from 1720, a neo-Gothic retable altar from the 19th century and a celebration altar, created in 1982 by the sculptor Michael Franke from Erkelenz. The altar plate from the 13th century was found during excavation work on the church. The relic of the skull of the martyr Saint Agatha is located in a recessed niche in the altar .
In the anteroom of the Marienkapelle there is a painting from the Rubens School. The picture The Adoration of the Magi dates from the 17th century.
2. Museum Kloster Kamp
51 ° 30 '14.2 " N , 6 ° 30' 58.5" E
The monastery museum in the former Agathastift was founded in 1987. It shows the eventful history of the monastery complex and documents the life and work of the Cistercian order. Old paintings, precious liturgical vestments and objects as well as other rare originals from the church environment are on display. The hand-embroidered altar curtain, the Kamper Antependium, is particularly unique in terms of art history . It is one of the most valuable needle paintings in the Rhineland and dates from the first half of the 14th century.
In 2005 the museum was fundamentally redesigned and supplemented with an audiovisual offering. There are temporary exhibitions on the ground floor four times a year.
3. Herb garden
51 ° 30 '10 " N , 6 ° 30' 59.4" E
The herb garden at the entrance to the spiritual and cultural center Kloster Kamp was redesigned in 2012 as a garden of the senses. The basis of the planting are fragrant herbs and herbs from folk medicine. It is run on a voluntary basis. In 2016 it was named one of the 50 most beautiful private gardens in Germany by a jury of experts at Callwey-Verlag.
4. Terrace garden
51 ° 30 '7.2 " N , 6 ° 30' 56.9" E
Horticultural monument on the southern slope of the Kamper Berg: The first terrace garden was created during the tenure of Abbot Edmundus von Richterich (1695–1715) in 1700 and redesigned in the Baroque style in 1740 by the monk Benedictus Bücken. The garden should form a total work of art with its architecture, flower beds, paths, figures and water features. The terraces of the southern slope were planted alternately with fruit trees and yews in the shape of a pyramid. A copper engraving by August Querfurth and Ernst Ludwig Ceite from 1747 shows the gardens in their former splendor.
During the French occupation from 1794 to 1804 the garden and the monastery fell into disrepair. The former baroque garden was increasingly forgotten. It was not until 1986 that the city of Kamp-Lintfort reconstructed the terrace garden based on the old copper engraving from 1747. After several years of construction, it was reopened in 1990.
5. Old garden
51 ° 30 '11.4 " N , 6 ° 31' 10.9" E
The old garden is located on the eastern slope of the Kamper mountain. He too was one of the forgotten gardens of the monastery. After the abbey was dissolved in 1802, the old garden was used as a pastor's garden until it was gradually converted into meadows in the course of the 20th century. Only the historical corridor name remained.
Between 2004 and 2007, the Old Garden was reconstructed based on panels from the 18th and 19th centuries. The planting concept for the beds was laid out according to the color wheel. In plant communities, flowers, perennials, shrubs and grasses in all color variations thrive. But the blooms also have a practical use. The bees from the nearby apiary find another source of food there.
6. Archeology in the glass house
51 ° 30 '13.1 " N , 6 ° 31' 10.2" E
Excavation site in the Old Garden, protected by a garden shed: Before the Old Garden was reconstructed, the Rhenish Office for Land Monument Preservation of the Rhineland Regional Council carried out archaeological excavations at various points and found the remains of a garden shed and a well. The remains of the wall indicate that it was built around 1714. This suggests that the garden was only laid out after the Truchsessian War (1583–1588).
7. Wedding Meadow / Grand Verger
51 ° 30 '14.4 " N , 6 ° 31' 11.6" E
Wedding couples from Kamp-Lintfort can plant their own fruit tree on the orchard meadow Grand Verger, symbolic of the partnership that will grow and bear fruit over the years. Traditionally, old types of fruit are planted that were already bred at the time of the monastery, including the gray French Renette apple , one of the oldest cultivated apple varieties.
8. Apiary
51 ° 30 '14.6 " N , 6 ° 31' 12.4" E
A wooden sculpture by Bernhard von Clairvaux (approx. 1090–1153) with a beehive in the former abbey church shows the great importance of beekeeping among the Cistercians. As self-sufficient, the monks were dependent on the hard-working insects, be it for pollinating the many fruit trees or for honey and wax production. Based on this model, the city of Kamp-Lintfort decided in 2006 to build an apiary below the former Kamp Abbey. It is managed by the local beekeeping association Vierquartieren (founded in 1911). The apiary is open every Sunday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
9. Holy House
51 ° 30 '13.4 " N , 6 ° 31' 13.7" E
The St. Joseph Chapel, better known as the Holy House, was built in 1894 by the St. Johannes Nepomuk Brotherhood Alt-Lintfort as a Corpus Christi altar and as a stop on the way to the Kamp Abbey Church. In 1963 the chapel was demolished because of the road planning for the B 510. It was rebuilt for the 550th anniversary of Kamp Monastery in 1998 at the parking lot at the Alter Garten. Since 1999, the Corpus Christi procession has been passing there again.
10. Former bathing establishment Am Spiegel
51 ° 30 '9.2 " N , 6 ° 31" 13.4 " E
For the first community-owned bathing establishment, the water of the Fossa Eugenia was dammed up below the monastery mountain to form a 1000 m² lake. It was opened as an outdoor swimming pool in 1925. The name Am Spiegel came from the terrace garden of Kamp Abbey, which made the lake look like a mirror with an old-fashioned border.
In 1934, however, the bathing facility had to be relocated due to subsidence . Between 1935 and 1963, the Pappelsee was created as a new outdoor pool near the official settlement.
11. Eugenian fossa
51 ° 30 '12.9 " N , 6 ° 31' 21.3" E
The Fossa Eugeniana are the remains of the canal that the Spaniards dug in 1626 between the Meuse and the Rhine in order to have a trade route that was independent of the Dutch. It was named after Isabella Clara Eugenia, the governor of the Spanish crown in the Netherlands. Raids, technical and financial problems brought construction to a standstill in 1692. The unfinished canal is the largest monument in the Wesel district. In Kamp-Lintfort, the canal along the B 510 can still be seen as a watercourse. The remains are a ground monument on Eugeniastrasse.
12. Sequoia Grove
51 ° 30 '12.5 " N , 6 ° 31' 27.3" E
As a reminder of its geological and economic roots, the city of Kamp-Lintfort created the sequoia grove. During the Carboniferous , swamp forests expanded there, which over the course of millions of years were converted into hard coal. The primeval forest with its sequoia trees, bald cypresses, horsetail and ferns should give an insight into this time.
13. Water management
51 ° 30 '12.2 " N , 6 ° 31' 32.4" E
Before the first sewage treatment plant of the Left Rhine Drainage Cooperative (LINEG) was built in Kamp-Lintfort on Konradstrasse in 1934, the population disposed of their wastewater in septic tanks . Before that, the water supply was secured via the well fields of the Friedrich Heinrich mine, west of the northern Germany mine. In the miners 'colony , drinking water had to be fetched from wells, while the civil servants' settlement already had pipeline networks. The water management was in operation until 1968 and was replaced by a new building on Moerser Straße.
The transformer tower built in 1954 for the Geisbruch pumping station and the sewage treatment plants on Konradstrasse and Moerser Strasse was shut down in 1983. Today it serves as a lookout tower.
14. Great Goorley
51 ° 30 '8.7 " N , 6 ° 31" 43.7 " E
Originally the Great Goorley was one of the many drainage canals of the Rhine. Until 1906 it flowed as a leisurely stream from the Gormannshof in Lintfort, which no longer exists today, west to the Fossa Eugeniana. On the premises of the Friedrich Heinrich colliery, it is conducted underground through pipes. From industrialization at the beginning of the 20th century, it was transformed into a sewer for the Friedrich Heinrich colliery and the adjacent residential and commercial buildings along Moerser Strasse. Between 1998 and 1990 the Große Goorley was renatured and serves as a scenic connection between the districts of Kamp and Lintfort.
15. Official settlement
51 ° 29 ′ 57.5 " N , 6 ° 32 ′ 28.3" E
The official settlement was built between 1907 and 1930. In this factory settlement of the Friedrich Heinrich colliery lived the better-paid employees like Steiger and the commercial employees. They referred to themselves as "mining officials". In contrast to the old settlement in which the simple colliery workers lived, the properties and houses of the civil servants' settlement were designed with larger living and open spaces and equipped with water pipes. The in-house casino in the park ensured that the privileged could stay among themselves.
With the founding of Ruhrkohle AG in 1963, people were no longer keen on home ownership. The houses gradually went into private ownership. A design statute ensures that the overall impression of the settlement is preserved.
16. Stephanswäldchen
51 ° 29 '58.4 " N , 6 ° 32' 35.7" E
In 1981 the city of Kamp-Lintfort acquired the Stephanswäldchen on the Great Gorley from the local mining industry. The plane tree grove was planted seasonally as early as the 1920s and served the mining region as a park. When the Wandelweg was created, the entrance area on Friedrich-Heinrich-Straße was redesigned. The roundabout in the southern area of the Stephanswäldchen was surrounded by a natural stone circle 50 meters in diameter. Open-air concerts are held there in the summer months. The musical palette ranges from jazz to musicals and classical music.
The university and the former colliery area of "Fritz´n Hen" (Friedrich-Heinrich) are another anchor point of the historical city walk. This is currently being redesigned as it is to become part of the state horticultural show from 2020 . A hilly, terraced park with many vantage points is planned.
See also
Old Friedrich-Heinrich settlement
Web links
- https://www.kamp-lintfort.de/de/sehenswuerdheiten/wandelweg-ein-weg-erzaehlt-geschichte/
- https://kloster-kamp.eu/
- http://www.europaeische-begegnungsstaette-am-kloster-kamp.de/index.php?id=3&L=0
- https://www.derwesten.de/staedte/nachrichten-aus-moers-kamp-lintfort-neukirchen-vluyn-rheurdt-und-issum/kamp-lintfort-bummel-durch-die-beamtensiedlung-id12047883.html
- https://www.kamp-lintfort.de/C1257567005F6C12/files/flyer_wandelweg_web_final_korrigiert.pdf/$file/flyer_wandelweg_web_final_korrigiert.pdf?OpenElement
- https://www.kamp-lintfort2020.de/