It was built in 1731 on the valley floor of the River Aar, demolished in 1956 and moved to its current flood-safe location in the center of the village with an extended nave.
The chapel is an official stamping point on the "Heidenstraße" pilgrimage route, a section of the Sauerland Camino in the Way of St. James network, which leads from Korbach to Meinerzhagen and on to Cologne.
Nieder-Schleidern was located in the once independent free county of Düdinghausen and thus in the disputed border area between the Catholic Electorate of Cologne and the Protestant Waldeck. From 1530, the counts of Waldeck, who had ruled since 1334, introduced the Reformation to the Free County, but lost it to the Lords of Büren just a few years later. This led to the "Counter-Reformation" at the beginning of the 17th century and the expulsion of the Protestant pastors. When the Protestant lords of Waldeck were reinstated after the Thirty Years' War, there was renewed unrest until the Free County was divided between Waldeck and Electoral Cologne in 1663. Nieder-Schleidern was now in the eastern part of Waldeck.
To this day, there is an even split between Protestant and Catholic beliefs in the village. This is why there are two churches in the village, which only has around 170 inhabitants.



