After returning form Strasbourg, there was time to explore the Rhine waterfront of Kehl. Baedeker described Kehl thus: Kehl (460 ft.), a small Baden town (3000 inhab.), was erected by the French as a tête-de-pont of Strassburg in 1688. Wars have taken their toll on Kehl. A number of monuments line Rheinpromenade, the Rhine Promenade, the riverbank park. Begegnung (Encounter) commemorates peace and reconciliation between France and Germany. Another memorial commemorates French resistance fighters killed in 1944. Four cenotaphs, the Denkmäler für Flutopfer, memorialize those drowned in Rhine floods in the line of duty. A stone marks the Jakobsweg, The Way of St. James. This was a pilgrimage route through Germany that led ultimately to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. In the park is a Biblical Garden. Each of the 17 stele made of red sandstone
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