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Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel

Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel

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Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel

Name: Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel
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Location: Sint-Truiden, Hasselt, South Limburg, Flanders, Belgium

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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

January 25, 2025

Experience the divine feeling of floating here...

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Robbimama

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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Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel

1. Helshoven Chapel – Helshoven Nature Reserve loop from Mettekoven

2. Helshoven Nature Reserve – Rest bench loop from Groot-Gelmen

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

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