ベルロ周辺のアトラクション＆必見スポット - トップ20

ヘルショフェンで最も高い場所からは、現在、ハスペンガウの風景の息をのむような景色を楽しむことができます。アーティストのフリッツ・ユーリスは、この目的のために、地元産の数十本の伐採された果樹からユニークな芸術作品を作成しました。 「ヘルシュ（ea）ヘブン」は、樹齢50年の標準的なサクランボの木90本で構成される木造の芸術作品で、2016年末にサクランボの病気であるチェリーピストウイルスに感染しました。この病気はサクランボに小さな実を引き起こします。今、伐採された木々は第二の人生を得ています。この芸術作品は、ハスペンガウのダイナミックな風景を象徴しています。

A really nice place to have a drink after your walk (open Wednesday and Sunday)

A beautiful area of (only) 34.5 hectares, characterized by reed beds, cattail ponds, and pools fringed by shrubs or with open banks... These diverse habitats offer countless bird species places to forage, nest, hibernate, or rest during their migration. No fewer than 212 species have already been observed! (Source: www.natagora.be)

nice place to go on holiday

Beautiful Chapel, unfortunately the crypt is closed

beautiful chapel with a lot of name and fame

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.

Former hermitage chapel of Helshoven. Around 1254 Gerard, brother of Arnold IV, Count of Loon, founded a priory hospital for pilgrims passing through, served by the Knights Hospitaller of St. John. In 1317 they sold all their goods in Helshoven to Goswijn, commander of the Teutonic Order in Bernissem (Sint-Truiden). An oratory was built on the site of the current chapel. The priory had already disappeared at the beginning of the 17th century, and was replaced by a hermitage around 1674, at the request of Gerardus van Deventer, the first hermit. The land commander of Alden-Biesen had the right of permission there. In 1796 the hermitage was prohibited by law. The chapel of Helshoven was destroyed by fire around 1574, probably during the second campaign of William the Silent. Landcommander Edmond Godfried van Bocholtz restores them around 1661. Above the door, the coat of arms of this commander and an inscription mentioning the construction. Already in the first half of the 18th century, mention of the poor condition of the chapel. In 1794, the goods of the German Order are confiscated, the chapel and hermitage become the property of the C.O.O. of Berlingen, which rents them to the various hermits until 1908. Restoration project in 1923 by architect A. Mairlot. In 1925, the dilapidated hermitage is demolished and the chapel is restored by architect G. Theunissen, according to the plans of Mairlot. The damage caused by a flying bomb in 1944 is repaired in 1955. Thorough restoration in 1966, during which the plasterwork of the outer walls was removed, the marlstone window sills were renewed as well as the affected marlstone parts, new wainscoting was installed; the choir was paved with stones from the Saint-Jacques in Liège. During excavations, a well was found to the north of the chapel, three skeletons to the west and a grave with the remains of a brick vault to the south. In 1995, a new restoration of the chapel, designed by J. Smeets (Hasselt), was completed. Inventory of Immovable Heritage: Chapel of Our Lady of Joyful Peace, https://id.erfgoed.net/erfgoedobjecten/31946