We have had some fresh snow. So I drove my car to a small valley some 25km south of Paderborn, the city where I live. There, in the “Valley of Peace”, is a small chapel, the Chapel of St. Meinolf with a small graveyard right next to it where members of the Mallinckrodt family rest. Meinolf had founded a monastery only a short distance away from here in 836 after he had led the delegation that brought the relics of the saint and former bishop Liborius of Le Mans to Paderborn. The chapel here was only built in 1742, though that building does no longer exist. The current chapel was commissioned in 1856 by Georg von Mallinckrodt.

Only short distance away, there is another graveyard with graves of soldiers and a memorial commemorating the victims of war and tyranny. Right before the end of WWII, Germans tried to stop the US Army here from closing the Ruhr Pocket.

This photograph was made with a Canon EOS 6D and an EF 35mm f/2 IS USM lens. The exposure was 1/500 second at f/5.6 and ISO 200. The photograph was edited in Adobe Lightroom. You can find this photo along with others from my trips in my local area in my album Around Paderborn.