Maria garden (Mariatuin)
| Project | Artwork at the Maria Chapel |
| Location | Entrance area to the Oldershove residential complex, Wehl |
| Planting | Jeanine Groen |
| Wall poem | Jan Willem Bruins |
| Client | Dinxperlo Housing AssociationWoningstichting Dinxperlo |
| Year | 2005 |
Oldershove is a residential complex comprising a care home and independent homes for the elderly. It is a new, large building in the centre of the village of Wehl.
At the front of the building is a small Maria chapel. The chapel is important for the residents of the village. In fact, it was in the way when plans for the reconstruction of Oldershove were made, but the decision was taken that it should not be removed and it now marks the entrance.
The chapel has acquired its own special place. A path of blue granite leads to the chapel and runs further to the Maria garden at the rear. Only white flowers blossom in the garden, including a cherry tree that produces white flowers in winter. From the garden, sitting on a long bench, you look towards the wall of the chapel on which a famous haiku by Moritake about a butterfly is painted.