Adresse: Franziskanerkloster Neviges, Elberfelder Strasse 12, 42553 Velbert; Opening hours Mariendom: Mo, Mi, Do, Fr: 6.30 – 18.30, Di: 6.30 – 21.00, Sa: 6.30 – 19.00, So und Feiertags: 8.00 Uhr – 19.00, Klosterpforte: Mo-Sa: 9.00 – 12.00, 15.00 – 17.30, sonn- und feiertags: 9.00 – 12.00, 15.00 – 17.00. - A Franciscan friar supposedly saw a manifestation of the Holy Mary, which was the start of the Pilgrimage to Neviges (1688), where a Fransiscan monastery existed. The modern Mariendom was built by G. Böhm (1968). It is a special building, founded on the ideas of Vaticanum II: The church looks like a tent from the outside and inside the altar stands in the midst of a marketplace to which a broad street is leading from the outside to the inside.
