The best hikes from bus stations around Zerf

It's nice that the old route has been preserved thanks to the cycle path, and that the station is at least still in the right context.

The use of this hiking trail is only recommended in rain-free times. The adjacent meadow was flooded and very muddy.

If you could still use it, a warm spot to rest.

The Marian pilgrimage site of Lourdes is located in the French Pyrenees and is visited by a large number of people every year, including many sick people who are hoping for a cure. The devotional image of Our Lady has become widespread - not only in France - everywhere, as here in Greimerath, believers have built Lourdes grottos. The ecclesiastical commemoration day "Our Lady in Lourdes" is on February 11th, this is the anniversary of the apparition of Mary (1858), when Our Lady appeared to 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous in a rock grotto not far from Lourdes. Bernadette later became a nun and died at the age of only 35. On December 8th (the feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary) in 1933, she was canonized by Pope Pius XI. The day of remembrance of the Lourdes Madonna is also World Day of the Sick.

St. Mark's picture Between Zerf and Greimerath This old chapel stands in the middle of the forest (Schneeberg) between Zerf and Greimerath. It was built in 1839 and the year is written above the entrance. The chapel is square and measures 4 x 3.50 meters. A hipped roof with a cross in the middle rests on the thick masonry. Inside we find the representations of the Sorrowful Mother, St. Joseph with the child and St. Anthony with the child. A sandstone relief depicting St. Hubertus is embedded in the back wall above the Pietà. The saint kneels praying on the ground, behind him comes his horse, on the other side there is a stag. Three dogs jump around. Hubertus as the patron saint of the hunters fits in well with our wooded area. Looking at the chapel, one asks oneself: Why is it actually called St. Mark's picture? Nothing can be seen of a representation of St. Mark or his symbol, the lion. Here you have to go back to the history of this chapel: On August 16, 1581 a St. Mark's Cross was erected here, shortly before the boundary of Greimerath. So it could be a marrow cross. The Marx family from Zerf renewed this cross on May 10th, 1730, and their descendants built this chapel in 1839. It probably has nothing to do with St. Mark. To the right of the chapel is an old spruce on which the sign hangs: Imperial spruce, planted on January 17th, 1859. At that time the Prussian king was probably not yet emperor, but the massive spruce was certainly not given this name until later. On the last Friday in May there is a service here at the chapel, and after the Maundy Thursday service, the two parishes of Zerf and Greimerath go in processions to the St. Mark's picture, praying for all cross-bearers in the world. http://www.greimerath-hochwald.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdheiten

Banneux chapel Large, open Lady Chapel. It was built in 1963 by craftsmen from Greimerath. The plasterer Hermann Witt and the painter Alfons Backes had just passed their master craftsman examination. In gratitude, they built this chapel. They were supported by Banneux pilgrims; Because this is consecrated to Our Lady of Banneux, the Virgin of the Poor. http://www.greimerath-hochwald.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdheiten

Lourdes grotto The grotto, built by Matthias Staudt and Matthias Diederich, (1906) after your return from a Lourdes pilgrimage, they recreated the pilgrimage church in Lourdes, which you clearly succeeded in doing. A plaque in front of the Lourdes grotto gives the year 1912 as the construction date. Http://www.greimerath-hochwald.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdheiten

A very nice place to linger and for a short prayer