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Floating Chapel (Helsh(ea)ven)

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Floating Chapel (Helsh(ea)ven)

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Floating Chapel (Helsh(ea)ven)

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    Location: Sint-Truiden, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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    2. Helshoven Chapel – Helshoven Nature Reserve loop from Mettekoven

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    3. Mettekoven Mill – Helshoven Nature Reserve loop from Groot-Gelmen

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    March 4, 2021

    A work of art by Frits Jeuris inspired by the chapel of Helshoven, located about a kilometer from this location.

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      January 24, 2025

      Here, at the gallows, you are at the highest point in Helshoven. The artwork 'Helsh(ea)ven' by Frits Jeuris, known to most as the 'floating chapel', invites you to enjoy that landscape and the work itself. It is made from cherry tree wood. At the end of 2016, the 50-year-old high-stemmed trees in Helshoven had to be cut down due to a viral disease, Little Cherry, which causes tasteless cherries. The gallows represents death. Dead trees. And the dead person. And then there are the trees that are given a second life in the artwork, the floating chapel. An end, a beginning, a view, between heaven and Helshoven, inviting reflection, looking and of course what the work is best known for: that strange image of a chapel that seems to float.

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        July 3, 2022

        Nice view from the chapel...

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          July 3, 2022

          Photogenic place...

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            November 5, 2020

            Pure nature, beautiful both in spring and autumn
            A lot of height difference. Busy visited during the weekend

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              February 28, 2021

              Beautiful work by an artist who used the wood of felled cherry trees to make this see-through chapel (by analogy with the more famous see-through church in Borgloon.

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                March 20, 2022

                Place where the witches used to put on the fire

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                  April 20, 2025

                  Enjoy the view while floating...

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                    January 25, 2025

                    Experience the divine feeling of floating here...

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                      March 31, 2025

                      Here, at the gallows, you are at the highest point in Helshoven. The artwork 'Helsh(ea)ven' by Frits Jeuris, known to most as the 'floating chapel', invites you to enjoy that landscape and the work itself. It is made from cherry tree wood. At the end of 2016, the 50-year-old high-stemmed trees in Helshoven had to be cut down due to a viral disease, Little Cherry, which causes tasteless cherries. The gallows represents death. Dead trees. And the dead person. And then there are the trees that are given a second life in the artwork, the floating chapel. An end, a beginning, a view, between heaven and Helshoven, inviting reflection, looking and of course what the work is best known for: that strange image of a chapel that seems to float.

                      This highlight has already been created twice, see also:

                      - komoot.com/nl-nl/highlight/6823300
                      - komoot.com/nl-nl/highlight/2622201

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                        July 23, 2024

                        This chapel floats above the ground on the highest point of Helshoven. The view over the orchards is breathtaking. If possible, you should visit Helsh(ea)ven at sunrise, because then the surroundings are bathed in a magical atmosphere. (Source: visitlimburg.be/de/blog/kunst-im-offenen-raum)

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                          January 24, 2025

                          Here, at the gallows, you are at the highest point in Helshoven. The artwork 'Helsh(ea)ven' by Frits Jeuris, known to most as the 'floating chapel', invites you to enjoy that landscape and the work itself. It is made from cherry tree wood. At the end of 2016, the 50-year-old high-stemmed trees in Helshoven had to be cut down due to a viral disease, Little Cherry, which causes tasteless cherries. The gallows represents death. Dead trees. And the dead person. And then there are the trees that are given a second life in the artwork, the floating chapel. An end, a beginning, a view, between heaven and Helshoven, inviting reflection, looking and of course what the work is best known for: that strange image of a chapel that seems to float.

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                            April 22, 2025

                            beautiful floating chapel in Helshoven

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                              April 22, 2025

                              beautiful quiet location scam chapel

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                                Parking is available near the Floating Chapel, and it offers a magnificent viewpoint over the rolling Haspengouw landscape.

                                The Floating Chapel, also known as "Helsheaven," is a unique work of art and a lookout point located at the highest point of the hamlet of Helshoven in the Belgian municipality of Borgloon. Created by artist Frits Jeuris, the chapel is made up of dozens of felled tall cherry trees that were affected by the Little Cherry Virus. These trees are given a second life in this floating chapel, which symbolically floats between heaven and hell, referencing the name "Helsh(ea)ven" and the theme of life and death. The proximity of an oak gallows, a historical symbol of justice from 1493, reinforces this symbolism.

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