Honorary grave Louise Gueury

Honorary grave Louise Gueury

The Louise Gueury grave of honor is located in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) in the former churchyard on Bettrather Straße.

The honor grave was built in 1900. It was entered under No. B 170 on November 11, 2005 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The grave of honor is located in the colorful garden and is easily accessible from both Bettrather Strasse and Saarlandallee.

architecture

It is a large monolithic stone block made of Swedish granite in the form of a mighty tumba with a cover . The dimensions of the base plate are around 1.25 x 2.45 meters, the height of the tumba at the front 0.95 and at the rear 1.25 meters, the weight at least eight tons . The wrap at the corners and the middle of the long side is designed with a tassel each , meander ribbon , imitation fringes, hollow cross can be found on the gable roof- shaped top surface, the rounded corners overlap over the side and top surfaces, on the sides are the names of the parents and brothers engraved, on the front face of Louise Gueury's with their own dates of life, the base plate is inscribed with "FAMILY TCGUEURY".

The Grabtumba belongs to Louise Gueury (* May 13, 1854; † July 21, 1900) founder of the lung sanatorium in the Hardter Forest and thus the most important patron of the city of Mönchengladbach.

See also : List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (=  The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

swell

• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '13.2 "  N , 6 ° 26' 0.7"  E