Princely crypt chapel (Anholt)

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Princely crypt chapel in Anholt

The Princely Crypt Chapel is a princely crypt in Isselburg - Anholt . It serves the German noble family Salm-Salm , a line of the imperial house of Salm , as a hereditary burial , burial place or mausoleum . The monument is privately owned by the Princely House.

Location, description and history

The facility is located not far from the German-Dutch border on Kapellendeich in the Anholt peasantry Regniet and forms the point de vue of an avenue leading there from Anholt as part of landscape architecture . The center of the complex consists of a hexagonal central building with a baroque arched, slate-covered onion roof, crowned by a lantern that reproduces the basic shape of the chapel in miniature. The building is a brick construction with lead-glazed segmental arched windows, plastered with incised ashlar and painted a cream tone. On two opposite sides of the hexagon there are porches as entrée and as a chancel . The entrance porch has a bell gable with a figure niche for a crucifix, the altar extension has a simple decorative gable. The entrance consists of an archway flanked by pilasters with a double-winged wooden door painted in black and white diamonds , a heraldic symbol of the Counts of Wildlife and the Rhine . A baroque alliance coat of arms is embedded as a relief above the archway .

Inside the building, the walls of which are covered with numerous epitaphs , there is access to the cellar, in which there is a crypt with sarcophagi belonging to the princely family. The complex has around 70 graves in total. A historical feature is the grave plate for Dietrich II. Of Bronckhorst -Batenburg (1478-1549), the Lord of Anholt , from 1552, which appears here translocated was.

The crypt chapel is surrounded by the lawns of a cemetery with tombstones and crucifixes . This cemetery, which is accessed via a path running in a hexagon, is enclosed by a low polygonal brick wall, which in turn is surrounded by a dry moat. Two wrought iron gates are set into the wall, in front of which small brick bridges span the dry moat. The gates are framed by brick pillars with baroque coats of arms.

The building was originally erected around 1670 as the Holy Cross Chapel for Catholics from the neighboring Dutch province of Gelderland and thus reflects the spirit and conflict situation of the time of the Counter Reformation, when Catholics in the neighboring Republic of the Seven United Provinces were not allowed to freely express their religion exercise and build their own churches. The builder was Karl Theodor Otto zu Salm (→ Mission stations in the Principality of Münster ). In 1804, the then Herr zu Anholt, the imperial prince Konstantin zu Salm-Salm , decided to convert the chapel, which had become dispensable as a place of worship for Dutch Catholics due to the introduction of religious freedom in the Batavian Republic , into the burial place of his family. The renovation began in 1811. In 1813 the first princely burials took place. In that year, ancestral coffins from the Anholt parish church of St. Pankratius were transferred here.

Burials (selection)

literature

  • Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments . New edition, North Rhine-Westphalia , part 2: Westphalia . Darmstadt 1969, p. 17 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sonja Terhorst: The princely crypt chapel in Anhalt was open . Article from September 12, 2016 in the portal nrz.de , accessed on December 24, 2018
  2. ↑ Anholt and his story , website in the portal anholt-heimatverein.de , accessed on December 24, 2018

Coordinates: 51 ° 51 '22.9 "  N , 6 ° 26' 1.3"  E