Liberation Route Audio spot - the cathedral tower is blown up!

Liberation Route audio spot- the cathedral tower is blown up!
Grotekerkstraat 29
6041 CR
Roermond
The blown up tower of the Cathedral in Roermond
Liberation Route audio spot Roermond tells story of the blown up Cathedral
The Cathedral with the Roerkade in the foreground, seen from the Voorstad in Roermond

Liberation Route audio spot

The Liberation Route lets you experience what happened in 1944 and 1945 in the Netherlands and the German border region. More than 20 locations in Limburg have boulders from the river Meuse with a Liberation Route audio spot.

Liberation Route audio spot in Roermond

At each Liberation Route audio spot, you can listen to the impressive experiences of one or more people during the last years of the war. In Roermond, you can listen to the story about the blown up tower of the cathedral.

The cathedral tower is blown up!

During WW2, the city of Roermond suffered greatly under the German occupation and the efforts of the Allies to liberate it. At the beginning of 1945, almost all civilians are evacuated. On February the 28th, the occupiers blow up the cathedral tower in an almost deserted town. Although nearby, a Jewish girl is hiding under the floor of a bakery...

Click here for the recording: "The cathedral tower is blown up!"