Kreuzweingarten cemetery
The Kreuzweingarten cemetery (a district of Euskirchen since 1969 ) is directly adjacent to the Heilig Kreuz church in Kreuzweingarten .
The burial place probably existed before the church was built. The oldest monument, a Romanesque tomb slab, is dated between 1100 and 1299. The oldest grave crosses are placed opposite the church along the cemetery wall, two of which date from 1598, 16 others from 1658 to 1758. The stone cemetery cross dates from 1782.
After the First World War, the cloth manufacturer Bernhard Becker donated a memorial for the war victims from Kreuzweingarten and Rheder , which was built as a small chapel with triangular gable according to a design by Georg Grasegger and was inaugurated in 1922. At first it was decorated with a fresco by the artist Walter Corde . It was replaced in 1936 by a mosaic by the Dominican Father Wolfram Plotzke , which depicts the risen Christ. Two ceramic works by Plotzke are embedded in the two side walls, below the panels with the fallen soldiers. Another mosaic made by his hands decorates the cemetery fountain.
War memorial condition after the renovation in 2015
Ceramic relief memorial by W. Plotzke
Becker grave cross by W. Plotzke
literature
- Nikola Reinartz : The grave crosses of our ancestors . In: Kreuzweingarten - Rheder and surroundings, 2nd edition 1977.
- Hermann Josef Kesternich: The Kreuzweingarten war memorial chapel - memorial to peace, the dead to memory - the living to a warning . Euskirchen-Kreuzweingarten 2014.
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 42.6 ″ N , 6 ° 47 ′ 27.5 ″ E