Princely Crypt
The term princely crypt generally describes the hereditary burial or the burial place for deceased members of a (former) princely house in the form of a crypt in the crypt or in a choir vault of a church. Burial in ornately designed ceremonial coffins made of tin, lead or stone was common - wood was mostly only used for inner coffins because it rots quickly.
Examples in the German area are among many others:
- Weimar Princely Crypt
- Princely crypt of the dukes of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg in the castle church of Friedenstein Castle in Gotha
- Elector's crypt in the Mannheim palace chapel
- Wittelsbacher Crypt in the Church of St. Michael in Munich
- Wittelsbacher Crypt in the Hofkirche St. Kajetan in Munich
- Wittelsbacher Crypt (Pfalz-Neuburg line) in the Church of St. Andreas in Düsseldorf
- Princely crypt and princely tombs in the collegiate church of St. Lambertus in Düsseldorf
- The burial place of the Counts and Dukes of Berg and the Dukes of Jülich-Berg in Altenberg Cathedral
- Hohenzollern Crypt in the Berlin Cathedral
- Guelph Crypt in Brunswick Cathedral
- Princely crypt of the Celle Welfen in the city church of St. Marien zu Celle
- Wettiner crypt in the Catholic Court Church in Dresden (electors and kings of the Albertine line)
- Wettiner crypt in Freiberg Cathedral (dukes and electors of the Albertine line)
- Capuchin crypt of the Habsburgs
- Heart crypt of the Habsburgs in the Church of St. Augustine in Vienna
- Entrails of the Habsburgs in St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
- Crypt of the Tyrolean Habsburgs in Stams Abbey
- Crypt of the Lords of Fürstenberg-Stammheim on the Apollinarisberg in Remagen
- Crypt of the Württemberg rulers in the collegiate church in Stuttgart
- Crypt of the Dukes of Württemberg-Neuenstadt in the Nikolauskirche in Neuenstadt am Kocher
- Princely crypt of the Wettin-Albertine dukes of Saxony-Zeitz in the castle church of St. Peter and Paul
- Crypt of the Wettin-Albertine dukes of Saxony-Weissenfels in the castle church of Neu-Augustusburg zu Weißenfels
- Crypt of the Wettin-Albertine dukes of Saxony-Merseburg in the Merseburg Cathedral
- Crypt of the Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt in the city church of Darmstadt
- Crypt of the Wettin-Ernestine dukes of Saxony-Altenburg in the castle church of Altenburg Castle
- Princely crypt of the princes of Anhalt-Bernburg in the castle church of Bernburg
- Princely crypt of the princes of Anhalt-Köthen in the St. Jakob zu Köthen
- The burial place of the margraves of Baden and Baden-Baden in the collegiate church of Baden-Baden and in the prince chapel of Lichtenthal Abbey
- The burial place of the margraves of Baden-Durlach in the castle and collegiate church of St. Michael in Pforzheim
- Grand Ducal Baden grave chapel in the pheasant garden in Karlsruhe
- Ducal crypt chapel in Meiningen
- Princely chapel of the Wettin margraves of Meissen in Meissen Cathedral
- Graves of the dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the Schwerin Cathedral
- Graves of the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Güstrow in Güstrow Cathedral
- Crypt of the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the Mirow Castle Church
- Crypt of the Hohenzollern Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach in the St. Gumbertus Church in Ansbach
- Crypt of the Guelph Dukes of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in the Church of St. Mary in Wolfenbüttel
- Crypt of the Princes of Liechtenstein in the collegiate church of the Vranov u Brna monastery
- Crypt of the Dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast
- Burial place of the house of Nassau-Saarbrücken collegiate church St. Arnual
- The burial place of the Princes zu Salm-Salm in the Princely Crypt Chapel at Anholt
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ NN : The princely crypt and the grave slabs of the dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the city church St. Marien Celle , with photos illustrated leaflet in DIN A5 format (4 pages, o. O., o. D.) after: Dieter Klatt: Kleiner Art Guide Schnell & Steiner No. 1986 , 2008