Coesfeld

Coesfeld is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and the capital of Coesfeld county.

Nepomucenum and St.-Pius-Gymnasium are highschools in Coesfeld.

History

Coesfeld was founded by the holy Ludgerus. Coesfeld has been a town since 1197.

Big villages in county Coesfeld:

Church of St. Lambert, the destination of the yearly Grand Cross procession, with its 17th-century baroque tower
The 12th century St. Jakobikirche was bombed during WWII, but the old doorway survives and a new church was built behind it.
One of the 18 stations of the cross in Coesfeld, erected in Galen's time by his Danish architect Pieter Pictorius
Coesfeld cross hung with silver votive decorations
Christoph Bernhard von Galen 1670

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