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]
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.
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- ^ Das Kreuz von Wackersdorf – (Chrismon-magazine, August 2011)
- ^ Gedenken an den WAA- Baustopp - (de:Onetz, 31.05.2014)
- ^ Gedenken an die Atom-Katastrophe – Für die Mitglieder der Marterlgemeinde ist der Widerstand gegen Kernenergie heute so aktuell wie vor 25 Jahren. archive – (Mittelbayerische Zeitung vom 25. April 2011)
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49°18′47.4″N 12°14′40.6″E / 49.313167°N 12.244611°E
- Christlicher Widerstand - Das Franziskusmarterl wird gebaut – (Uli Otto, Kultur gegen die WAA, 2023)
- Atom-Aus: Andenken und Party bis zum Abschalten - (Oberpfalz TV vom 17.04.2023)
- Nach WAA-Widerstand: Schüler restaurieren Franziskus-Marterl - (BR24 vom 17.04.2018)