Kreis Kleve

• Kleve
  • Kleve(Cleves) is built on hills, topped by a cliff (for which the town was named) on which is built the Schwanenburg (Swan Castle), associated with the legend of Lohrengrin, Knight of the Holy Grail, who according to legend, came floating up the Rhine in a boat pulled by swans to rescue the Duchess of Cleves. The story inspired the opera Lohrengrin by Wagner. Kleve was the seat of powerful dukes, whose height of fame was in 1539 when Anne of Cleves was married to King Henry VIII of England.
    
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• Emmerich
  • Emmerich is a small town with it's main claim to fame being the Treasury which houses the Ark of St. Willibrord, an ancient reliquary supposedly holding the remains of the Anglo-Saxon missionary, Willibrord (AD 658-739) who founded the church, St. Martini.

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