Kolping Chapel

Kolping Chapel is a Michigan historical marker in Chesterfield, Macomb County, dedicated 1997.

Macomb County · dedicated 1997 · 47277 Sugar Bush Road, Chesterfield

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Father Joseph Wuest established the Detroit Chapter of the Catholic Kolping Society in 1926. Wuest inscribed “Honor by means of untiring work” on a plaque for this chapel, which he built in 1932. Constructed of stones and shells sent from Kolping societies, churches and missions worldwide, the Neo-Gothic chapel is reminiscent of European wayside shrines. Father Adolph Kolping founded the society in 1846 to benefit German tradesmen and their families.

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