Outside the built-up area of Limburg’s Bree lies a Lourdes grotto near the former monastery of Gerkenberg in Mariahof. The monastery was once a branch of the Carmelite order. In 1933, missionaries from the Holy Heart arrived. In 2001, the complex came into the hands of the municipality of Bree and after renovation and new construction it became a nursing home.
The Lourdes grotto is located among trees and has a complete appearance with a statue of Mary and a rosary, a statue of Bernadette, a niche with an altar and benches. Candles are lit in the lower part of the grotto and statues stand on the altar. The grotto was probably built around 1935.
The Lourdes Cave is located on the route of the Maria Chapel Trail from Bree, which was established in 2021.
When you drive up to the entrance, in front of the former church, you immediately go right; past a fence and at the end of the road, on the right at the corner of the monastery wall stands the Lourdes grotto.
Address: Meeuwerkiezel 88, Bree.
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