Cappenberg Attractions
18km/11mi north of Dortmund is Cappenberg, with a Schloss occupied by the 19th C. statesman Freiherr vom Stein in his last years; it now houses the Freiherr vom Stein Archives.
The Stiftskirche in Cappenberg, near Dortmund, is a former collegiate church (12th and 14th C.), and has richly carved 16th C. choir-stalls. The church treasury contains a famous reliquary (c. 1165) in the form of a head of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, presented by the Emperor to his godfather Otto von Cappenberg.