Frenswegen Monastery Chapel
The construction of the chapel adds a new chapter to the history of the monastery. In the words of the architect: "Our aim was not to mark a new beginning, but to do something well-tried in a new way." Important aspects of the existing formal language are integrated into the new spatial concept: the orientation to the east, the longitudinal axis of the nave, the old brick and sandstone wall, and the powerful, intact piers. New and old forms are combined in this concept to create an architectural dialogue. Constructional contact is deliberately confined to point-like technical measures, such as the new pile foundations, or reduced to simple, unobtrusive junctions in glass. The historical layers remain recognizable.
