List of memorials related to the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant
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Many memorials and monuments were erected in Bavaria and Austria to commemorate the construction of and resistance against the Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing plant (WAA). The production and erection of some monuments even during the conflict was initially a "performative act of protest," but also fulfilled practical functions, such as the wayside shrine Franziskus-Marterl.
WAA Wackersdorf buildings
After the WAA project was abandoned, an industrial park was built on the former WAA construction site. The green-colored WAA buildings (module test stand, fuel element receiving storage, and workshops) are used by companies such as BMW and Caterpillar. (more photos)
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. The "Franziskus-Marterl" is a stone reminder of the fight against the reprocessing plant. (more photos)
Inscriptions:
St. Francis pray for us
Nuclear radiation is causing the abortion of creation, and it is a deadly joke to believe in human infallibility.
Stolen Cross of Wackersdorf
From December 26 to 29, 1985, wood sculptor Stefan Preisl carved a 1.60 m tall figure of Christ in the anti-nuclear power plant (WAA) Hut village Free Republic of Wackerland.
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