Cemetery chapel (Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim)

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Cemetery chapel in Ludwigshafen-Friesenheim

The cemetery chapel in the Ludwigshafen district of Friesenheim was built between 1926 and 1927 and is a listed building .

When the old Friesenheim cemetery was abandoned and the Friesenpark was built on its premises, the new cemetery was laid out on Kopernikusstrasse at the beginning of the 20th century.

The cemetery chapel was built by the municipal building department; City planning officer Alfred Laur took over the construction management . Next to the consecration hall is the morgue, other church rooms and the gardener's house. Architecturally it concerns with the outbuildings to simply designed Putzbauten , the gabled roof of the main building carrying a revaluing roof skylights , the verschiefert is.

The main portal bears sculptures by the British-German sculptor William Ohly (1883–1955), above a crucifixion relief.

Crucifixion relief

Web links

Commons : Friedhofskapelle Friesenheim  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Mainz 2020, p. 17 (PDF; 4.9 MB).
  2. ^ Friesenheim cemetery in Ludwigshafen am Rhein. In: ludwigshafen.de. Retrieved April 19, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 29.1 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 32 ″  E