Viersen - "Fußfall" on Portiunkulaweg (1)

Viersen - "Fußfall" on Portiunkulaweg (1), originally uploaded by viersener1.

18th century "Fussfall" (station where one stops to pray along a specified route, as in the Seven Stations of the Cross) along the medieval Portiunkulaweg which led from St Remigius parish church to St Paul's Convent in Rintgen, Viersen.

The practice of stopping at each of the seven "Fussfallen" - especially when family members were ill or dying - was widespread in the Rhineland and is still to an extent practised today.