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Natural Monuments

Sint-Dimpna Chapel and Holy Well Zammel

Natural Monuments

Sint-Dimpna Chapel and Holy Well Zammel

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Sint-Dimpna Chapel and Holy Well Zammel

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Location: Geel, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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January 22, 2017

Hiking

Sint-Dimpnakapel located between Zammel and Oosterlo, on the border of a recent residential area and the Zammelsbroek near the confluence of the Molenlaak and the Grote Nete. Legend has it that the Holy Dimpna and St. Gerebernus stayed here in a hermitage until they were murdered in Geel, chapel built at a well with supposed miraculous and healing water to which a pilgrimage arose and in which a chapel was built and in 1627 a lime was planted .

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February 28, 2021

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According to legend, Dimpna and Gerebernus lived in a hut in Zammel for several months. A chapel was built near this hut in the mid-17th century. This was soon too …

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February 28, 2021

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You can't visit the Dimpna chapel, too bad.

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Location: Geel, Turnhout, Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium

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