Bible Garden Arenberg-Immendorf

In the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlagen, you can immerse yourself in the fascinating imagery of Christianity. At the same time, you can experience the natural garden design of the famous horticultural artist Peter Joseph Lenné. The park was built in 1845 as a unique "landscape bible". Sixty wayside shrines, grottos and chapels with artistic stained glass windows and decorated with Eifel lava stone, rock crystals, minerals, shells from all over the world and colourful blast furnace slag tell the story of the life and passion of Jesus and his parents. St. Anthony talks to the fish in the pond, animals cavort with St. Francis and Mary appears to the young Bernadette in the Lourdes Grotto. A highlight is the Paradise Garden with its beech trees, from where you can find your way to the imaginatively designed pilgrimage church. Enchanted paths lead along around 1.2 kilometres to mysterious places that invite meditation and reflection. The Way of the Cross, which is integrated into the park, shows visitors Christ's suffering and invites them to reflect on their own wounds. The Bible Garden is also a wounded place; in 1936, a road was built through the middle of the Pfarrer-Kraus grounds for military reasons without any consideration for the grounds.