It's this kind of detail that gives local flavor to a place.

[randomness]

I passed one of many autobahnkirchen on the way to the airport this morning. It was this one, on the A5 in Baden-Baden: http://www.3d-autobahnkirche.de/index_e.html. Here is another website, in German: http://www.autobahnkirchen.de/html/baden-baden.html.

It's a fairly modern-looking church.

http://www.autobahnkirchen.de/karte.html has a map of all the autobahnkirchen and autobahnkapellen.

A church in the rest area of the freeway. Why not? There are chapels in airports, after all.

Comments

[bedfull-o-books.livejournal.com]

And not to be forgetting the Katholishchekirche mit shellstation in that postcards book.... I wonder if it is still there....

I have heard of chapels in truck stops (in the US), which makes all kinds of sense.

Wonder if it's because most rest areas are state run. That separation thing....

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Wonder if it's because most rest areas are state run. That separation thing....

That would be my guess, yah.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

It looked nice this morning with all the snow, but I nearly bogged down in the parking lot because they hadn't plowed, so I didn't get out of the car to have a good look. Maybe another time, when it's not snowing.

[hotpoint.livejournal.com]

I first imagined that you'd said 'autobahnkirschen', and imagined something like Spoonbridge and Cherry alongside the highway.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

As a matter of fact, I nearly typed that.

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

That is a nice piece of architecture.