Cemetery chapel (Weißenfels)

The Weißenfels cemetery chapel

The old Poor Clare Church in 1880

The cemetery chapel is a Gothic building in Weißenfels in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt . This is the choir of the former monastery church of the St. Claren monastery , which was moved here.

history

The Poor Clare Church, built in 1301, was demolished from 1882 onwards from some other sources after 1884. The choir, a late Gothic square building with a diamond-shaped net vault, was demolished and rebuilt true to the original as the chapel of the city cemetery in 1886. The church did without pomp and a tower, which is typical of the mendicant orders . After moving to the cemetery, the old choir was rededicated in 1886. In 1927 the vestibule and a sacristy were added.

literature

Matthias Köhler in Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Saxony-Anhalt II, Dessau and Halle administrative districts , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-422-03065-4 .

Individual evidence

^ Choir of the monastery church , Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on October 19, 2017
↑ Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt II, administrative districts Dessau and Halle, p. 851 u. 862

Web links

Commons : Friedhofskapelle (Weißenfels) - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

51.19564 11.97252Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 44.3 " N , 11 ° 58 ′ 21.1" E

[1] Choir of the monastery church , Weißenfels in the picture, accessed on October 19, 2017

[2] Georg Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments, Saxony-Anhalt II, administrative districts Dessau and Halle, p. 851 u. 862