Basilika St. Margareta
Late Romanesque collegiate church with a founder's tomb and a monumental tenth-century crucifix.
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This guide to the Basilika St. Margareta in Düsseldorf-Gerresheim is about the man the district is named after, the Frankish nobleman Gerrich, and the document that is supposed to prove when and why he founded a house of noblewomen here. It reaches from the ninth century to a local historian's questions in two thousand sixteen, by way of medieval scribes and a portrait from the nineteen twenties. Start in the left aisle, beside the stone sarcophagus.
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