The best running trails around Kreis Kleve

Narrow path with a wonderful downward flow and a nice climb up. Just across the border, but you feel like you're cycling in Sauerland or beyond.

The Kermisdahl, the old river channel near Kleve, was known in the Middle Ages as "den alde Rijn," and the city wall surrounding Kleve along the waterway was called the "Rheinmauer." "Kermisdael" was initially a field name on the moraine ridge. The name gradually migrated down the hill and eventually came to refer to the body of water. The Kermisdahl is fed by surface water from the ridge and by the drainage ditch "Wetering," which begins near "Haus Horst." Within the city limits, the Kermisdahl changes its name and becomes the navigable Spoy Canal, which flows into the Rhine via the Old Rhine near Schenkenschanz.

Johanna Sebus (1791–1809) came from Brienen near Kleve. During a dam break in 1809, while flooding the Rhine, she first rescued her mother from the rising waters. In an attempt to save other lives, she ultimately perished herself. When her body was discovered three months later, the then sub-prefect in Kleve, Baron Karl Ludwig von Keverberg (1768–1841), initiated the construction of a memorial. The government of the French occupation of the Rhineland approved the proposal and had the monument erected in 1811. At the same time, Johanna Sebus was posthumously awarded the "White Rose," an honor established by Napoleon to be bestowed annually in every town and village within the French-occupied territories upon a particularly virtuous young woman. Johanna Sebus soon became a figure of collective memory in literature and music: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe dedicated a ballad to her, and Franz Schubert composed a musical setting of this poem—albeit an unfinished one. In the 20th century, the musician and painter Béla Lajos (1929–2016) composed an opera for Johanna Sebus. To mark the 175th anniversary of her death in 1984, a Johanna Sebus Medal was established, awarded to individuals or institutions for "help in times of need." Architectural Description The memorial's form draws from the almost undecorated repertoire of a classicism that primarily employs stereometric, elementary forms. The taller-than-a-man, semicircular stele, made of bluestone, stands on a stepped cornice base and is backed by a semicircular stone bench. The front of the monument bears an inscription in French, above which is an inset medallion of white marble depicting a floating rose surrounded by twelve stars. The German translation of the French inscription on the back dates from 1953. It reads: “In memory of the seventeen-year-old beautiful and good girl from the village of Brienen, who perished on January 13, 1809, while helping to save lives during the ice floe on the Rhine and the great breach of the Cleverhamm dam.” The Johanna Sebus Memorial is owned by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and administered by the Düsseldorf District Government… (Fabian Kröning, Institute of Art History, University of Cologne, 2016) https://www.kuladig.de/Objektansicht/KLD-298086

A beautiful piece of nature, a cycling and walking path through a lake just across the border near Venlo

Between the lakes - a beautiful route

The renovation has now been completed and the apartments are occupied.

Really beautiful gardens.

It's worth taking a break here