A place of connectedness with both heaven and earth.

Many hands worked together to transform the construction of this new chapel in the Bregenzerwald into a shared experience for an entire village. A place of silence, contemplation and connectedness with both heaven and earth.

The chapel is set elegantly into the topography of a hilltop near Krumbach Moor. It replaces an earlier chapel that could no longer be renovated. The new building is the result of many years of collective planning and construction by neighbours, citizens, architects, the municipality and artisans. More than a hundred people contributed their time, ideas and resources. The building belongs to the tradition of a historical order that characterises many villages in the Bregenzerwald. The wooden structure sits on a stone base and is clad with fine-grained, winter-cut larch shingles that gradually darken like the old farmhouses of the region. The basic form – a nave and an apse – is simple. Constructed from steeply towering frames, the building rises prominently above the site. The chapel is entered via a sheltered portal cut into the front facade. Behind the brass entrance door, the bright space for the congregation is flooded with light via the full height rectangular window set into the centre of the apse.