Architekten Andreas Cukrowicz und Simon Metzler

What does a person do when they don't know how to carry on? This question and others like it were at the start of the design of a memorial chapel in the historic basilica in Rankweil. It towers over the little community from a massive rocky outcrop, the Liebfrauenberg. Ever since its beginnings, its vaults have housed a memorial chapel which was redesigned in 2012 by the two architects Andreas Cukrowicz and Simon Metzler. The names of all the soldiers missing and fallen in two World Wars are listed in two books, gold-coloured brass plates point the way into nothing and yet are actually constellations, and the outside wall has been given a simple little opening to allow the urgently needed ray of light in. The light from this falls on the remembrance shine from March to September. It is a clearly sacred space which speaks a soothingly simple language.