Kevelaer: Gnadenkapelle Pilgrimage Shrine, Marienbasilika, and the Lower Rhine Catholic Town in the Kleve District
Kevelaer has about 28,100 residents and lies on the Lower Rhine plain in the Kleve district of Nordrhein-Westfalen. The town has been a Catholic pilgrimage destination since 1642, when a Marian image was placed in a roadside shrine. The Gnadenkapelle (chapel of grace) houses the image, and the Marienbasilika was built to accommodate growing pilgrim numbers. Around 800,000 pilgrims visit annually.
Kleve is about 20 kilometres north. Geldern lies roughly 10 kilometres south. The Dutch border is approximately 15 kilometres west. Weeze airport, used by budget airlines, is nearby. The flat Lower Rhine landscape of fields and scattered farms stretches in all directions. Kevelaer's Hauptstrasse serves as a pedestrianised shopping street.
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Kevelaer has about 28,100 residents and lies on the Lower Rhine plain in the Kleve district of Nordrhein-Westfalen. The town has been a Catholic pilgrimage destination since 1642, when a Marian image was placed in a roadside shrine. The Gnadenkapelle (chapel of grace) houses the image, and the Marienbasilika was built to accommodate growing pilgrim numbers. Around 800,000 pilgrims visit annually.
Kleve is about 20 kilometres north. Geldern lies roughly 10 kilometres south. The Dutch border is approximately 15 kilometres west. Weeze airport, used by budget airlines, is nearby. The flat Lower Rhine landscape of fields and scattered farms stretches in all directions. Kevelaer's Hauptstrasse serves as a pedestrianised shopping street.
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