The “Marterl”, a chapel-wayside shrine in the southeast of the unfinished Wackersdorf reprocessing plant, was built by Christian members of the BIs Schwandorf and Amberg on an area donated for this purpose by farmer Michael Meier, after architect Dieter Meiler - also a member of the BI - built it planned in accordance with the guidelines of the building regulations. One hectare of the area near Marterl was bought by the Federal Nature Conservation Association in order to keep the area accessible at all times.
The structure itself was built on a footprint of just one square meter because a building of this size did not require any approval from the authorities, especially since it was a “sacred building”. The picture of Francis in the Marterl was made by Bernd Trepisch. The first church festival was celebrated on September 30, 1984 at the Marterl.

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Rombea

November 26, 2019

The Franziskus-Marterl is a chapel shrine in the southeast of the unfinished reprocessing plant Wackersdorf "Im Blaubeerwald" in Altenschwand. The WAA Resistance Marterl is dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi and is framed by several other protest monuments such as the Cross of Wackersdorf and The Broken Man. At the Marterl, where in the view of Franz Josef Strauss "the work of the devil was operated, met in the mid-1980s every Sunday at 14:00 clock WAA opponents to an ecumenical devotion and then moved into the field or to the fence. Even today, the "parish church" meets four times a year for worship - at the Chernobyl and Hiroshima memorial days, in memory of Marterl's patron Francis of Assisi on October 3 and Christmas Eve. Since 2015, an official information panel of the Schwandorf district commemorates the construction and resistance to the WAW.
wikiwand.com/de/Franziskus-Marterl

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Laupi

January 31, 2021

Kind of a magical place

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