Defrance crypt

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Crypt after the restoration
Interior view with the memorial plaques

The Defrance crypt is a listed tomb in the form of a chapel and was built around 1900 at the Sankt Johann cemetery in Dillingen .

There were several graves in the crypt . On the inside of the crypt there is a plaque:

  • Marie-Hélène-Émélie Peaucellier, née Defrance le 17 Juin 1843, décedée le 21 Février 1872
  • Léonie Defrance, née Jaunez, née le 1 Septembre 1848, décedée le 5 Juin 1888

Marie-Hélène-Émélie Peaucellier was one of three wives of Charles-Nicolas Peaucellier , the first from Paris to the crypt reburied was. The reburial took place in 1919 shortly after the First World War in the then French occupation zone for the Grand-Officier de la Légion d'honneur with all military honors. In 1929 another reburial took place in the Peaucellier crypt in Wallerfangen . His wife Marie-Hélène-Emélie was also reburied in Wallerfangen.

Since only deaths have been officially documented, the sources are sparse. They are based on statements by Henry Villeroy de Galhau and Jean Cazal, director of the Fayenceries de Sarreguemines, and the last official Dillingen gravedigger Johann Thomaser who was present at the reburial. The second board says:

  • Jean Louis Piette , né le 29 Juin 1767, décedé le 23 Mars 1833
  • Marie-Georges Jules Piette, né le 2 September 1815, décédé le 9 Août 1847
  • Anne-Gabrielle Piette, née Wurmser, née le 6 Janvier 1779, décédée le 15 Janvier 1851

The Piettes were related to the Defrance family and were moved from the old cemetery to the crypt in 1872. At the initiative of local history researcher Aloys Lehnert , research in the 1960s was supposed to determine the actual occupancy. With the support of the Compte de Bonneville , the then General Secretary of Dillinger Hütte , the crypt was opened on January 28, 1966. On the left there were only empty niches and a coffin handle. The contents of the right side were not determined because it was completely walled up.

The crypt was hardly affected by the devastation of the cemetery in World War II. In 2006 the crypt was restored in consultation with the State Conservatory Office. In 2009, the commitment of the city of Dillingen was honored with the Saarland Monument Preservation Prize in the Public Owners Group.

literature

  • Aloys Lehnert : History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968.

Web links

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ monument list ( Memento of 14 December 2013, Internet Archive ) (PDF, 160 kB) of the district Saarlouis
  2. ↑ Saarbrücker Zeitung from July 16, 2009
  3. ^ A. Lehnert ( memento of October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on Saarland biographies

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '0.5 "  N , 6 ° 43' 39.2"  E