List of memorial churches
Gedächtniskirche or Gedenkkirche are often called church buildings that were built on the occasion of the memory of certain people or events and dedicated to them.
Memorial churches for victims of war and violence
- War memorial chapel , Appelhülsen
- Maria Regina Martyrum , Berlin, Memorial Church of the German Catholics in honor of the martyrs for freedom of belief and conscience in the years 1933–1945
- Community Center Plötzensee , Berlin, Evangelical Memorial Church for the Victims of National Socialism
- Bezau War Memorial Chapel , Austria, 1st / 2nd World War
- Memorial Church of the Russian New Martyrs and Confessors at the former place of execution in Butowo
- War memorial chapel Garmisch , 1st / 2nd World War
- Memorial Church of the Expellees of the Zlabingser Ländchen, Großau (municipality of Raabs an der Thaya)
- St. Joseph in Le Havre , memorial church for the destruction of the city and the dead of September 1944
- Russian Memorial Church , Leipzig, ( Battle of the Nations near Leipzig )
- Gedächtniskirche Schönefeld , ( Battle of the Nations near Leipzig )
- Crimean Memorial Church , Crimean War (1853-1856), Istanbul
- Memorial Church of All Saints (Minsk) , Belarusian national memorial
- Memorial chapel on the Schlösslberg , Battle of Mogersdorf, Turkish Wars, 1664
- Memorial Chapel (Obersteinbach ob Gmünd) , Abenberg, Bavaria, World War 2
- Chapel Peenemünde , Usedom Island
- Rosow Memorial Church , for escape, expulsion and a new beginning
- Bergkapelle (Steinach) , war memorial chapel in Steinach, World War II
- War memorial chapel , Stralsbach, 1st / 2nd World War
- St. George's Memorial Church (Ypres) , World War 1
Memorial churches of further events
- Reformation Memorial Church (Eggenfelden)
- Gedächtniskapelle (Lohn) , Eschweiler, North Rhine-Westphalia (memory of the five dredged villages of the parish)
- Stave Heimaey Island Heimaey (Iceland), memorial Church to mark the thousandth anniversary of a company incorporated in the year 1000 in Iceland Church
- Gustav Adolf Memorial Church in Lützen-Meuchen
- Gedächtniskapelle St. Emmeram , Munich (old chapel St. Emmeram)
- Reformation Memorial Church (Nuremberg)
- Memorial Church in memory of an airplane accident in 1972, Svetlogorsk (Rauschen), Kaliningrad Region
- Silent Night Memorial Chapel , Oberndorf, Salzburg, Austria
- Memorial Church of the Protestation (Speyer)
- Memorial Chapel Unterlesach , Kals, (flood)
- Council Memorial Church Lainz Speising , Vienna
- Orange Memorial Church , Wiesbaden-Biebrich
Memorial churches by person
- Duchess Agnes Memorial Church , Altenburg
- Bismarck Memorial Church , Aumühle
- Bildstöckl Chapel near Bad Reichenhall, Berchtesgadener Land (members of the traditional costume association)
- Old Catholic memorial church of Joseph II (1911), Břidličná (Friedland an der Mohra), Czech Republic
- Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin-Charlottenburg
- Hindenburg Memorial Church , Berlin, 1935–1946 Name of the Apostle Paul Church (Berlin-Hermsdorf)
- Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche , Berlin-Tiergarten
- Kaiserin Augusta Memorial Church , alternative name of the Gnadenkirche (Berlin-Mitte)
- Queen Luise Memorial Church (Berlin) , Berlin-Schöneberg
- Martin Luther Memorial Church , Berlin-Mariendorf
- Stimson Memorial Chapel , Bonn, Plittersdorf
- Mayor Smidt Memorial Church , Bremerhaven
- Ralph Connor Memorial United Church (Canmore)
- Queen Luise Memorial Church (Kaliningrad)
- Memorial Church (Karlsruhe) ( Karl Friedrich (Baden) )
- Herzog-Albrecht-Gedächtniskirche , Königsberg in Prussia
- Herzog Alfred Memorial Church (Luisenthal)
- Gustav-Adolf-Memorial Church Lützen
- Titus Brandsma Memorial Church , Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Gustav-Adolf-Gedächtniskirche , Nuremberg
- Capela Carlos Alberto , Porto, Portugal
- Alexander Nevsky Memorial Church (Potsdam)
- Stanford Memorial Church , Stanford, California
- Hindenburg Memorial Church Stetten
- Wartislaw Memorial Church , Stolpe an der Peene
- Gedächtniskirche (Stuttgart) , Stuttgart, Lessingstraße (→ Julius von Jobst , for his wife)
- Mildred B. Cooper Memorial Chapel , Bella Vista, Arkansas
Not clear
- Memorial Church (Kirdorf)
- Memorial Church (Neustadt am Rennsteig)
- St. Nikolai Church (Stralsund) , housed a memorial cap under its chapels when the memorial was inaugurated
See also
Memoria is the name of a memorial building over the grave of a martyr or saint.
Web links
Commons : Gedächtniskirchen - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
