Cemetery chapel (Rheydt)
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The cemetery chapel Rheydt is on the Protestant cemetery in the district of Rheydt in Mönchengladbach , Nordrhein-Westfalen , North Road 140th
The chapel and its outbuildings were built after an architectural competition by the Dortmund architects Heinrich Strunck and Josef Wentzler and completed in 1928. The building was entered on October 15, 2003 under No. N 016 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The cemetery chapel is located on the grounds of the Protestant cemetery Rheydt, which was laid out in the early 19th century and later expanded several times. With its four towers, it is centrally aligned with the main axis and stands on the youngest section facing Nordstrasse.
architecture
The building complex of the Totenhalle is designed and formulated as an angularly structured system with ancillary buildings as a creatively closed ensemble. The center of the small complex is the elongated chapel building , which merges into the cell wing with five coffin chambers to the east.
The chapel or hall of the dead presents itself as a down-to-earth plastered building with a saddle roof drawn far down and a massive four-sided tower on the western entrance front. Natural stone facings are used throughout as dividing and structuring elements of the wall surfaces . The windows on all facades are emphasized by elaborate sandstone frames ; The solid edge structures at all corners and the surrounding plinths are designed analogously.
The main facade is the entrance front with the tower in front of which a protruding tent roof protrudes. A wide, natural stone-framed portal opens up in the middle of the building with an anteroom that bears sandstone tablets on both long sides with the names of 713 fallen as a reminder of the dead of the First World War . A loop- hole -like window and a sound hole designed as a lying rectangle open the wall surfaces on three sides.
The structure of the nave on the north facade, in addition to four narrow rectangular windows, is a protruding, modified arcade (ashlar pillar) with a hipped gable roof. Here, on the left, a wide entrance covered with a natural stone border opens up the wing with the corpse cells. The opposite side of the facade is divided into three window openings and a two-wing entrance in an analogous design and design.
On the east facade, six small rectangles illuminate the interior of the chapel. The toilet facilities and the administration building adjoin the cell wing in an L-shape. The elongated, single-storey component with a low saddle roof is symmetrically structured by a wide passage, which is flanked by toilet rooms on both sides with three small rectangular windows. Here, too, strong framing of the wall openings. The two- story office building with gable ends forms the end of the small ensemble. The simple plastered building is exposed on the ground floor to the left by an upright rectangular window with shutters and an analogous, strong frame; on the right the entrance to the house, equipped with a small slate canopy, to which a three-step staircase leads.
On the upper floor three unadorned window openings broken into the wall surface in a regular arrangement. The design of the other facade sides is correspondingly simple. Attached to the south facade is a box-shaped extension ( stair tower ) that occupies almost the entire height of the house with its own gable roof (with slips ) and wooden box cornice protruding broadly on both sides. A door entrance on the right narrow side opens up this part of the building. The exposure takes place through small rectangular windows. Lively structuring of the wall surfaces and corners, analogous to the entrance side.
literature
- Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 62, 1928, No. 89 (from November 7, 1928), pp. 757–764.
swell
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB).
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung 1928 (see literature )
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 24.1 ″ N , 6 ° 26 ′ 58.6 ″ E