|
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.Das Kreuz von Wackersdorf – (Chrismon (magazine), Chrismon-magazine, August 2011) 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. 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 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wackersdorf Reprocessing Plant
The Wackersdorf nuclear reprocessing plant (, abbreviated WAA Wackersdorf) was a planned Nuclear reprocessing, reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf in Bavaria, Germany. Because of protests, the plant was never completed. Today it is an industrial site with no special features. Anti-WAA protest In the early 1980s, plans to build a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in the Bavarian town of Wackersdorf led to major protests. In 1986, peaceful protests as well as heavy confrontations between West German police armed with stun grenades, rubber bullets, water cannons, CS gas and Phenacyl chloride, CN-gas and demonstrators of which some were armed with slingshots, crowbars and Molotov cocktails took place at multiple occasions at the site of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Wackersdorf. The plans for the plant were abandoned in 1988. It is still unclear whether protests, plant economics, or the death of the Minister-President of the state of Bavaria, Franz Josef Strauß , in 1988 led to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
