Kempen Travel Guide
A detailed destination guide for your next Germany vacation
Kempen Overview
Kempen is situated approx. 30 km northwest of Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf vacation rentals | Düsseldorf travel guide), and 20 km east of Venlo. It was once a centre of textile manufacturing, i.e. silk, cotton, linen, etc.
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Things to See in Kempen
Kurkölnische Landesburg
Half-timbered house
Ehemalige Franziskanerkloster
Heilig-Geist-Kapelle
Fachwerk-Wehrturm in St. Hubert
Kempener St. Martinszug
Kempener Karnevalsverein
Kempener Weihnachtsmarkt
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Maps and Driving Directions to Kempen
Kempen can be reached using the Bundesautobahn 40, Bundesstraße 509, and Bundesstraße 9.
Franziskanerkloster
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Related Sites
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- Homepage of Kempen: Kempen (official home page)
- Wikipedia: Kempen
More about the History of Kempen
- 1186 First mention in official documentation of Kempen as a place - the sovereign until 1794 is the Archbishop (electoral prince) of Cologne
- around 1290 Kempen is rebuilt as a fortified town
- 1642 Kempen is conquered and destroyed by the allied French, Hessian and Weimar (Weimar vacation rentals | Weimar travel guide) troops during the "Hessen War" (Thirty Years War)
- 1970 Communal restructuring: The communities of Hüls, St. Hubert, Tönisberg and Schmalbroich join Kempen along with the localities of St. Peter and Unterweiden to form a single town
- 1975 In further local reforms, Hüls is assigned to the city of Krefeld (Krefeld vacation rentals | Krefeld travel guide). The county of Viersen (Viersen vacation rentals | Viersen travel guide) is formed and Kempen becomes part of "Kreis Viersen"
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