Kevelaer is a town in Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Understand

Kevelaer is a city located in the Cleves district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is known as one of the largest pilgrimage sites in Northwestern Europe. Each year, over a million Christian pilgrims from Germany and the Netherlands visit this place to see the Virgin Mary at the Grace Church.

According to legend, a poor merchant named Hendrik Busman heard the voice of the Virgin Mary on Christmas Eve in 1641, requesting him to build a church. He heard this request three times, and the church he built, known as the Grace Church, became the focal point of the pilgrimage site.

Get in

By train

• 1 Kevelaer station. arrival, departure. From Weeze Airport to Kevelaer train station: Airport line 73 (public bus every 60 min, VRR tariff). 

By plane

• 1 Weeze airport, Flughafen-Ring 1, 47652 Weeze, Germany, ☏ +49 2837-666111. (updated Sep 2023)

See

• 1 Sankt Antonius Kirche, Gelderner Str., 47624 Kevelaer, ☏ +49 2832 9752610. (updated Jan 2019)
• 2 Niederrheinisches Museum für Volksskunde und Kulturgeschichte e.V., Hauptstraße 18, 47623 Kevelaer, ☏ +49 2832 95410. Tu-Su 10:00-17:00. (updated Jan 2019)

Do

• 1 Irrland Die Bauernhof-Erlebnisoase, Am Scheidweg 1, 47624 Kevelaer, ☏ +49 2832 976656. (updated Jan 2019)

Sleep

• 1 Hotel Klostergarten, Klostergarten 1, ☏ +49 2832 9250-100, info@hotel‑klostergarten.eu.