St. Peter in Ketten

St. Peter in Ketten is a church in Hadamar, Limburg-Weilburg, Hesse. St. Peter in Ketten is situated nearby to the post office Hermes Paketshop, as well as near the park Die Horst.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Roman Catholic
Postal code: 65589
Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Hadamar killing centre and Wendelinuskapelle.

Hadamar killing centre

Museum

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The Hadamar killing centre was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4. It was housed within a psychiatric hospital located in the German town of Hadamar, near Limburg in Hessen. Hadamar killing centre is situated 1½ km north of St. Peter in Ketten.

Wendelinuskapelle

Church

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Wendelinuskapelle is a church, which is situated 650 metres south of St. Peter in Ketten.

Hadamar Castle

Public building

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Hadamar Castle is a public building, which is situated 1½ km northeast of St. Peter in Ketten.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Niederhadamar and Hadamar.

Niederhadamar

Village

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Niederhadamar is a German village belonging to the municipality of Hadamar, with 4,000 inhabitants. It is located between several other communities: Elz to the south, Hundsangen to the west, Hadamar to the north, and Offheim to the east.

Hadamar

Village

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Hadamar is a small town in Limburg-Weilburg district in Hesse, Germany. Hadamar is known for its Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry/Centre for Social Psychiatry, lying at the edge of town, in whose outlying buildings is also found the Hadamar Memorial.