Coesfeld

Coesfeld is the capital of the district of Coesfeld inside the German country of North Rhine-Westphalia. Coesfeld received its town rights in 1197, but changed into first recorded earlier than that inside the biography of St. Ludger, client and first bishop of the diocese of Munster who turned into born north of Coesfeld in Billerbeck. The day earlier than he died, Ludger spent the night in Coesfeld and heard mass in the morning in the church he founded.

He changed into on his manner from his abbey in Essen to Munster. The avenue he accompanied passed Coesfeld and Billerbeck, and after preaching inside the St. Lambert's church, 26 March 809, he travelled directly to Billerbeck, in which he died inside the nighttime. The Coesfeld St. Jacobikirche dates from the equal length because the city charter. For centuries, Coesfeld was an crucial stopping location for pilgrims travelling one of the extra popular Germanic Jakobi routes leading from Warendorf over Münster to Coesfeld, after which on thru Borken to Wesel on the Rhine.