Franziskus-Marterl

The Franziskus-Marterl is a chapel-shrine in the southeast of the unfinished Wackersdorf reprocessing plant (WAA) "Im Blaubeerwald" in Altenschwand (Bodenwöhr, Schwandorf (district), Bavaria). The WAA resistance marterl is dedicated to Francis of Assisi and is surrounded by several other protest monuments such as the Christian cross of Wackersdorf.^[1] The "Franziskus-Marterl" is a stone reminder of the fight against the reprocessing plant (WAA). In 1986 the chapel was built on the site by Michael Meier, with the Wackersdorf Cross to the right.^[2]

Franziskus-Marterl

St. Francis is preaching to the birds

Thanks for end of WAA - "The bow of God to protect the earth"

At the shrine in the mid-1980s, WAA opponents met every Sunday at 14:00 for an ecumenical prayer and then moved into the area or to the hoarding. This is the same place where today the "Marterlgemeinde" meet four times a year to a prayer: at the Chernobyl disaster^[3] and Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in memory of the shrine's saint Francis of Assisi on 3 October and on Christmas Eve.