Seven chapels

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Seven chapels is an architectural project of the Siegfried and Elfriede Denzel Foundation, in which seven chapels have been built along the Swabian Danube Cycle Path since 2018 . Each chapel is designed by a different architect, the timber construction is carried out by Gumpp & Maier from Binswangen . The district nurse Peter Fassl developed the project in February 2017 on behalf of the foundation. The only requirement he gave to the architects was: "In every chapel there is a design cross."

Chapels

  • Emersacker Chapel

  • Chapel Emersacker, looking up

  • Unterliezheim Chapel

  • Unterliezheim Chapel interior view

  • Chapel Oberbechingen

  • The chapel in Buttenwiesen is shaped like praying hands.

Gundelfingen Chapel

The first of the seven chapels was ecumenically blessed on June 30, 2018 and is located in Gundelfingen on the cycle path towards Offingen . Architect Hans Engel designed the 5.06 m high building with 12 round pillars made of larch wood. In the middle hangs a colored glass pane with a cross.

Emersacker Chapel

On December 15, 2018, the 12 m high “Blue Chapel Laugnatal” (also called “Huber Chapel”) was ecumenically blessed. It is on the bike path between Emersacker and Welden . Its interior is illuminated by the blue glass skylight. The architect was Wilhelm Huber from Kempten .

Unterliezheim Chapel

The ecumenical blessing of the chapel in Unterliezheim took place on the same day as in Emersacker . The British architect John Pawson designed the 7.22 m high, narrow log house from 12 m long Douglas fir trunks. The cross is made of amber glass.

Chapel Oberbechingen

Architect Frank Lattke from Augsburg designed the 7.30 m high chapel on the cycle path between Oberbechingen and Dattenhausen . She was ecumenically blessed on September 28, 2019.

Buttenwiesen chapel

Architect Alen Jasarevic designed the chapel, which resembles the shape of a rising tent. The twelve meter high chapel is located in the Ludwigsschwaige .

Planned chapels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The first of seven chapels , Catholic Sunday newspaper No. 30 of 28/29. July 2018