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Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel by Frits Jeuris

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Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel by Frits Jeuris

Helsh(ea)ven – The Floating Chapel by Frits Jeuris

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    April 20, 2025

    Enjoy the view while floating...

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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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        April 22, 2025

        beautiful floating chapel in Helshoven

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

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