Eudenbach: Parish Church, Procession and Geowalks

When planning a trip to Eudenbach, you can choose between different focal points: church and local history, geowalks, and a landscape shaped by the former quarry. If you are looking for accommodation, you can first consider whether you want your stay to focus mainly on history or a geowalk. Important for planning: Eudenberg Quarry is inaccessible and closed to visitors.

Parish Church and Procession to Quirrenbach

Eudenbach Parish Church was built in 1912 to plans by Bonn architect Friedrich Tasche as a three-aisled Neo-Romanesque church. “Three-aisled” describes a layout with three longitudinal naves; Neo-Romanesque refers to a later revival of Romanesque architectural forms. The church windows were designed by Willy de Graaf from Essen-Werden in 1954. There are 42 years between construction of the church and the design of the windows. This makes it possible to distinguish the original architectural form from the later window design chronologically.

The present-day chapel in nearby Quirrenbach was built in 1894; its history dates back to 1734. Since 1999, a procession from Eudenbach to Quirrenbach has taken place every year on the Feast of the Assumption. The chapel’s dates describe different aspects: 1734 marks its history, while 1894 is the year the present-day chapel was built. The procession has its own point of reference, beginning in 1999. If you want to plan your trip around the procession, check the specific date details in advance.

Hiking, the Quarry and Local History

Geowalk G4 – Eudenberg starts at the car park by Eudenbach Church, Eudenbacher Straße 109, 53639 Königswinter. This gives you a specific starting point for the tour. Eudenberg is a disused quarry with several extraction terraces in the area of a former volcanic cone. After quarrying ceased, a protected biotope developed there. The quarry itself is inaccessible and closed to visitors, so do not plan to visit it as a place you can enter. Check local notices in advance in case conditions change.

The former Eudenbach forester’s lodge on Eudenbacher Straße is a historic monument dating from 1890. Another geowalk, “Siebengebirge – Geowalk: Hühnerberg,” explains the importance of stone quarrying in the Siebengebirge, including the Oberpleiser Land and Oberhaus. This presents a single historic monument in Eudenbach alongside the region-wide history of stone quarrying as different points of interest for those interested in cultural history.

More Topics in the Wider Destination of Königswinter

In the wider destination of Königswinter, the Petersberg Visitor Centre presents the history of the site in an exhibition divided into five sections; one section is devoted to the nature of Petersberg. The Rheinsteig trail passes directly by the Petersberg Visitor Centre. The permanent exhibition at the Brückenhof Museum in Königswinter includes an early 20th-century kitchen, a fully equipped shoemaker’s workshop and the “Weilberg” model railway layout. It relates to the Heisterbacher Talbahn, a narrow-gauge railway that ran through the Heisterbach Valley from 1889 to 1950. Special exhibitions at the museum feature local and association history as well as works by local artists.

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