7. Treis-Karden to Niederfell

The Zilles Chapel is located on the slope of the Zillesberg. The mountain and the chapel are named after St. Cyriacus. Due to a dialectal error, Cyriakus became Zilles. The chapel was already mentioned around 1100 and later still in 1257. According to various sources, a hermitage was located near the small church, next to the choir, until the 19th century.
A Way of the Cross with half reliefs in the 14 small houses. They are based on pictorial representations from the first half of the 19th century.
Further information: treis-Karden-Mosel.de

As early as 1075, a church in the castles was called a chapel. Burgen belonged then to the collegiate monastery of Münstermaifeld. Still in the time of the archbishop of Trier, Balduin von Lützelburg, whom we have now met twice, the church in Burgen is called a chapel around 1330, so also in the imperial tax register 1557 again as a chapel. It is only since 1627 that a baptismal and vine register is kept in Burgen - a sign of an independent parish. The oldest part of the church is kept in the sacristy with the four-part cross vault. Its construction dates back to 1550. The sacristy was the choir and the present choir is the chapel hall. In 1766 the new nave was added to the early Gothic choir. It was not until 1827/28 that the west tower with its octagonal helmet followed.
More information : Burgen unter Mosel