Cemetery chapel
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A cemetery chapel or cemetery church is a church building in a cemetery that is intended for worship or burial ceremonies . The churches are rarely fully-fledged churches (in the sacred sense), so in general they are used specifically for funeral ceremonies , not general worship services .
history
The forerunners of the cemetery chapels have been located north of the Alps since the Romanesque era as two-storey buildings. The basement was used for storing excavated bones ( Karner Bone House, ossuary), the upper floor as a sanctuary for funeral services . These designs were often found in the Alpine region, but fell out of use over time.
Cemetery chapels in today's sense gradually emerged from the 18th century with the abolition of the church cemetery grouped around the local church buildings and the associated relocation of burial places to cemeteries further away from the village. The holding of funeral and burial ceremonies in the village or in the residential building decreased, so that the need to create special purpose-specific rooms for the funeral ceremonies arose. A variety of buildings developed according to the respective style of the time. Sometimes existing older buildings were rededicated.
Examples
Examples of important cemetery chapels or churches are:
Germany
- St. Stephanus cemetery church in Aachen-Kornelimünster
- St. Michael cemetery church in Bad Griesbach im Rottal
- Bebertal cemetery chapel
- Cemetery chapel (Böckingen)
- Evangelical cemetery church St. Georgen Braunfels
- Cemetery chapel (Rheydt)
- Cemetery chapel (Mönchsondheim)
- Cemetery Church (Stammbach)
- Combined church and cemetery chapel Veldrom
- Cemetery chapel for the fourteen helpers in need (Welden)
- Christenruhkapelle in Windsbach
France
- Chambon-sur-Lac cemetery chapel , 10th and 12th centuries
- Montrol-Sénard cemetery chapel
Austria
- Romanesque Karner von Mistelbach an der Zaya , built around 1200, tympanum field
- Karner in Hartberg , second half of the 12th century, prototypical late Romanesque two-story building, wall paintings
- Magdalenenkapelle Hall in Tirol , late 12th century, oldest cemetery chapel in Tyrol
- Michaelskapelle of the parish church Axam , beginning of the 14th century
- Maria Alm cemetery chapel , Gothic path chapel with wall paintings
- Schwaz cemetery chapel , built 1504–1506 by Christoph Reichartinger , late Gothic winged altar (before 1511) by Christoph Scheller von Memmingen
- Peggau cemetery chapel , late 15th / early 16th, important wall paintings
- Pinkafeld cemetery chapel , 1779, paintings by Eduard Steinle
- Cemetery chapel Ledenitzen am Faakersee, glass window by Valentin Oman
- Cemetery church hl. Michael in Rankweil
- Cemetery Church of St. Charles Borromeo , Vienna
Switzerland
- Liebfrauenkapelle Rapperswil
- St. Ursula Chapel in Rapperswil- Kempraten
See also
literature
- Page no longer available , search in web archives: cemetery chapels (PDF; 450 kB), Office of the Tyrolean Provincial Government, Culture Department
- Wolfgang Westerhoff: Karner in Austria and South Tyrol. Lower Austria Pressehaus, St. Pölten-Wien 1989, ISBN 3-85326-891-9
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwaz, cemetery chapel hll. Michael and Veit ( Memento of the original of April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Monument of the Month, September 2006, Federal Monuments Office
- ^ Peggau, cemetery chapel , Federal Monuments Office
