Cemetery portal (Rüthen)

Cemetery portal

The cemetery portal is a listed building remnant in Rüthen , a town in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The cemetery is on the site of the former Rüthen Castle .

The portal is the only remnant of the Capuchin monastery built by Ambrosius von Oelde from 1683 to 1686 . The magnificent structure bears the Fürstenberg coat of arms and a donor inscription. The portal made of Rüthener sandstone is marked 1684.

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments , North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 2, Westphalia, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1969

Web links

Old photos on the LWL side

Individual evidence

↑ Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 496 .

51.491296 8.422646Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 29 ″ N , 8 ° 25 ′ 22 ″ E

[1] Georg Dehio ; Dorothea Kluge; Wilfried Hansmann ; Ernst Gall : North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments . tape 2 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1969, OCLC 272521926 , p. 496 .