A natural monument of extraordinary fascination: a narrow gorge with metre-high rock faces, cool and dark. Cracks and crevices, weathered and overgrown with mosses and lichens. Anyone walking through this eye of a needle in the sandstone is walking through a 200-million-year-old seabed that harbours many secrets.
The Catholic church in Manderscheid could probably tell many stories about the last centuries. It was first mentioned in 1330. It is called the Tree of Life Church because a tree of life in the form of a column grows from the baptismal font in the crypt.
The Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother of God (municipality of Dockendorf) is located on the circular hiking trail no. 89 of the Southern Eifel Nature Park.
The Aachen master builder Couven erected the building in 1783 for the cloth manufacturer M.P.W. Troistorff, following the example of the town houses of the nobility. In keeping with the spirit of the times, the half-timbered house was plastered and decorated with ornamentation. Rich carvings on the doors with supraports and wrought ironwork on the staircase and balcony railings bear witness to the pomp and wealth of the residents.