Ossuary (Deidesheim)
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 View from the north |
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| place | Deidesheim |
| Construction year | Late 15th century |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 ′ 28.2 " N , 8 ° 11 ′ 12" E |
The ossuary in the small town of Deidesheim in the Palatinate is located next to the parish church of St. Ulrich , where the town's cemetery used to be. As part of the immediate vicinity of the parish church, it is a listed building. It is the only remaining ossuary in the Palatinate .
The ossuary stands in the south-west corner of the formerly walled old cemetery, which was around the parish church from the 15th century to the 18th century. It was probably built in the late 15th century, on the one hand the similarity of the doors and windows with those of the neighboring parish church, on the other hand a wooden column that stands in a corner of the ossuary and probably supported the roof earlier; it bears the coat of arms of the Speyer bishop Ludwig von Helmstatt . On the north side there are two windows and two doors. The windows on the south side were only used in 1962.
The ossuary was in use until 1783, when it served as a storage room until 1962. Today it is a memorial for those who fell in Deidesheim in the two world wars. Inside, next to the wooden column, there are three tombstones from the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Individual evidence
- ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 20 (PDF; 5.1 MB; see: Kath. Stadtpfarrkirche St. Ulrich Kirchgasse 1 ).
- ^ Markus Weis: Art and Architecture . In: Kurt Andermann , Berthold Schnabel (Ed.): Deidesheim - Contributions to the history and culture of a city in the wine country . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1995, ISBN 3-7995-0418-4 , p. 175 .
- ^ A b Berthold Schnabel: Art historical guide through the Deidesheim association . Deidesheim 1976, p. 20 .