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Kevelaer
Sign in to saveKevelaer (; Low Rhenish: Käwela) is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is the largest Catholic pilgrimage location within north-western Europe. Over one million Marian devotees, mostly from Germany and the Netherlands, visit the Basilica of Kevelaer every year to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary. The population in 2019 was 28,021.
Key facts
- German location.type
- Stadt
- German location.name
- Kevelaer
- German location.image_flag
- Flagge Kevelaer.svg
- German location.image_coa
- DEU Kevelaer COA.svg
- German location.image_photo
- Mariabasiliek Kevelaer 24-04-2019 12-44-27.jpg
- German location.image_caption
- The Basilica of Our Lady of Consolation
- German location.image_plan
- Kevelaer in KLE.svg
- German location.state
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- German location.region
- Düsseldorf
- German location.district
- Kleve
- German location.elevation
- 20
- German location.area
- 100.64
- German location.postal_code
- 47623, 47624, 47625, 47626, 47627
- German location.area_code
- 0 28 32
- German location.licence
- KLE, GEL
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 05 1 54 032
- German location.divisions
- 5
- German location.website
- www.kevelaer.de
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Startseite | Wallfahrtsstadt Kevelaer
kevelaer.de →Link to the official site · 16,314 chars · not written by Vinony
Described at
Mediendatenbank | kek-online.de
kek-online.de →Link to a page describing this subject · 1,088 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Kleve
- Population
- 28466
- Area
- 100.64
- Elevation
- 20
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Official website
- www.kevelaer.de
- Image
- Basilika, Gnadenkapelle in Kevelaer.JPG
- Dialing code
- 02832
- Licence plate code
- KLE
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- postal code
- 47623–47627
- Commons category
- Kevelaer
- topic's main category
- Category:Kevelaer
- described by source
- Svensk uppslagsbok
- short name
- Kv
- P6814
- Kevelaer
- P8168
- Fritz Oswald Bilse
- described at URL
- www.kek-online.de/medienkonzentration/mediendatenbank/#/profile/shareholder/5be1a6b6-73fc-4777-bc34-4d01a9980a6f
- hashtag
- Kevelaer
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Marian cult and Legend
- History
- Pontifical approbations
- References in literature
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people
- Gallery
- References
- External links
Kevelaer (; Low Rhenish: Käwela) is a town in the district of Kleve, in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is the largest Catholic pilgrimage location within north-western Europe. Over one million Marian devotees, mostly from Germany and the Netherlands, visit the Basilica of Kevelaer every year to honour the Blessed Virgin Mary. The population in 2019 was 28,021.
==Marian cult and Legend==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kevelaer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Gallery (9)
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3 mapped locations