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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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1. Helshoven Chapel – Helshoven Nature Reserve loop from Mettekoven

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

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3. Helshoven Nature Reserve – Helshoven Chapel loop from Groot-Gelmen

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Gert | Pellin - Unleash The Biker

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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Jeff S

July 3, 2022

Nice view from the chapel...

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Elevation 90 m

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Wednesday 14 January

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Max wind speed: 24.0 km/h

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

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Floating Chapel (Helsh(ea)ven)

1. Helshoven Chapel – Helshoven Nature Reserve loop from Mettekoven

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