Epitaph for Johann Friedrich Rampacher
The epitaph for Johann Friedrich Rampacher is one of 14 epitaphs of the Uffkirche in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt . The inner epitaph is dedicated to the Cannstatter government councilor, court judge and Vogt Johann Friedrich Rampacher (1702–1749). The epitaph consists of a pedestal with an inscription panel and a gable top with the coat of arms of the Rampacher family.
description
The wall epitaph is attached to the right side of the west wall. The two-part epitaph consists of a pedestal and a gable top. The pedestal bears an inscription panel with a memorial inscription (inscription 1) and a Bible solution (inscription 2). It is crowned by an expansive shell shape, behind which 2 branches of leaves sprout to the side. At the lower edge, the inscription panel ends with a lower jaw-less skull that rests on a thick leg of bone. The curved gable top shows the crowned, rollwerk-framed coat of arms of the Rampacher family, which is held by 2 winged angels with trumpets and palm branches.
Inscriptions
Inscription 1
- Commemorative inscription for the Cannstatter government councilor, court judge and Vogt Johann Friedrich Rampacher (1702–1749):
[...] VG
Johann Friderich Rampacher
high Princely Würtembergischer governmental Rath
28-year-old Vogt allhier
born at Munster the Jan. 13, 1702
Seelig died at Cannstadt the May 11th 1749
Rest here in body
Bey 10 His children
through the last Love Service
The
Left behind ... Zweyen daughters
And a Schwiger son,
husband and father with a lot of tears
If love sets this stone
Then only stop our longing
If we are against you
You will not come against us.
Your course is done with fame
Lay down to rest no
thousand meals to good night
Inscription 2
- Bible solution from the book Jesus Sirach, chapters 2, 4–5:
Corpse TCX [?]
Syrach on Cap 2. 4.5
Everything that happens to you suffer [...], patiently in all sorrow.
Then, like gold through fire, [so] all who please God are tried by the fire of tribulation.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 16.52 " N , 9 ° 13 ′ 34.37" E