St. Johannes cemetery chapel (Schaan)
The St. Johannes cemetery chapel is a funeral chapel named after John the Baptist in the cemetery of the Liechtenstein community of Schaan . It is located within the walled cemetery area and, together with the preserved Romanesque tower of the old parish church of St. Laurentius, forms a historical group of buildings.
Architecture and equipment
The building was built in 1934 according to plans by the young German architect Erwin Hinderer (1901–1944), who had already erected other buildings in Schaan and Vaduz since the early 1930s. The rectangular building, decorated with a simple cross, has a porch with high arched openings to the west, north and east. A step system leads from the north through a main passage supported by two columns made of tuff stone , which has a straight end, into the vestibule and further into the funeral room. The window on the back wall of the funeral room was designed by the St. Gallen painter and glass painter August Wanner . It shows Jesus rising from the grave .
The formerly presumably plain white area above the main passage was subsequently decorated in 1952 by the artistically ambitious Schaaner court chaplain Ludwig Schnüriger with colored wall paintings depicting Christ as judge of the world with two intercessors and flanking angels .
On the outside walls and inside the chapel there are epitaphs from the 18th and 19th centuries, which are reminiscent of former pastors and court chaplains who worked in Schaan. Most of the grave monuments probably come from the old St. Laurentius Church.
On the west side of the chapel was a plaque with the name of the originating from Liechtenstein fallen of the First World War set into the wall, including Prince Heinrich Alois of Liechtenstein (1877-1915). The panel was made by the «Comradeship Association in Liechtenstein» for the 20th anniversary of the start of the war in 1934. It was initially located on the old church tower and was later attached to the chapel wall.
literature
- Ulrike Mayr, Rupert Quaderer, Fabian Frommelt: Schaan. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .
- Cornelia Hermann: St. Johannes cemetery chapel . In: Hand in Hand Establishment (ed.): Christian Liechtenstein: Churches, chapels and signs of faith . Balzers 2019, ISBN 978-3-03307125-4 , pp. 143 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Kameradschaftsbund in Liechtenstein" publishes a list with the names of those who fell in World War I and calls for further names to be reported, dam. In: e-archiv.li. September 1, 1934, accessed June 24, 2019 .
- ^ Rupert Quaderer: First World War. In: Historical Lexicon of the Principality of Liechtenstein .