Cemetery chapel (Teupitz)
The cemetery chapel is a listed sacred building in Teupitz in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg .
history
In 1828 the municipal cemetery at the Heilig-Geist-Kirche was closed and relocated to the Gesenberg south of the city center. Between 1905 and 1908, the Teupitz State Institute was established there, a psychiatric hospital that admitted people with mental illnesses and the physically disabled. In 1908 she acquired an adjoining churchyard from the parish and in 1917 built a morgue on it . The painting was done by the German church painter Robert Sandfort . In 2003 the building was renovated by the Teupitz architect Vilco Scholz and placed under monument protection in 2009.
architecture
The basic structure of the single-storey building with a light-colored plaster has a rectangular floor plan. In the middle of the south wall there are two small, arched windows. Its shape is also taken up on the south wall through three additional windows. This is followed by a small protrusion to the west with a rectangular portal that can be closed by a simple, double-winged, dark-painted wooden door. With a slight, inward-facing offset, the west tower now follows, on the north and south sides of which two significantly larger, also arched windows are embedded. Further access is possible via an arched portal on the west side of the tower. The base of the tower is clad with dark painted wood at the level of the arches of the windows; this cladding can be found in the rectangular tower tower. Three wooden sound arcades can be seen here , which are closed off by a hipped roof with a ball and cross. A small annex adjoins the north wall, which expands in an easterly direction with another protruding annex with a large window front.
Surroundings
To the east of the cemetery chapel is a war cemetery , redesigned in 1995 , on which around 700 dead from the First and Second World Wars were buried. Until 1945 these were primarily soldiers of the Wehrmacht . After the end of the war, soldiers were added who had fallen in the Halbe pocket and were reburied here. A black obelisk has stood north of the building since May 10, 2000 , commemorating the 1884 victims who perished in the institution in the course of Action T4 .
literature
- Lothar Tyb'l: Teupitzer Miniatures: Thirty stories from the 700-year-old tavern town . Weißensee-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89998-160-5 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Cemeteries and cemetery culture in Teupitz , website of the city of Teupitz, accessed on May 5, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 56.4 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 7.9 ″ E