Tombs of the Jacob family
| Tombs of the Jacob family | ||
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 Funerary monuments in 2011 |
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| place | Schopp | |
| Client | Jacob family | |
| Architectural style | classicism | |
| Construction year | first half of the 19th century | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 21 '19 " N , 7 ° 41' 34.8" E | |
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The three grave monuments of the Jacob family are located in the Schopp cemetery of the Rhineland-Palatinate community of Schopp . The classical grave monuments from the first half of the 19th century are the oldest in the cemetery. They are of particular importance for the local history and local history of the place and are protected as cultural monuments.
History and architecture
The village of Schopp was rebuilt by the Jacob family in the 1680s after being destroyed and evacuated during the Thirty Years' War . The cemetery was laid out in the first half of the 19th century, before the dead from the town were buried in Schmalenberg . The first person to be buried was an old man from the Jacob family. The oldest surviving tombstones are works of classicism and each adorned with an urn . They were still on the original graves at the beginning of the 1960s and were later collected in the southeast entrance area on the cemetery wall. In front of them there is now a field with urn graves.
The tomb of Elisabeth Scherer , married Jacob, dates from 1828. It is a rectangular stele, decorated with an urn and acanthus, and with extensive inscriptions on the front and back. According to this, Jacob was 70 years fewer days 14 old. She was married for 48 years and gave birth to 7 children, 3 of whom preceded her, and has 35 grandchildren . Her youngest daughter was the mother of the famous cookbook author Emmy Braun (Luise Jacob).
The tomb of Peter and Salome Jacob dates from 1834. It is a round grave column with an urn that rises on a stepped, square base. Two cartridges are provided with text. According to this, both of them reached the old age of 80 and fell asleep gently without serious physical suffering . The buried are Joh. Peter Jacob (1739–1819) and Maria Salome geb. Stein (1749-1834). Both also had seven children and are the parents of long-time district councilor Johann Nicolaus Jacob . Jacob was Elisabeth Scherer's brother-in-law.
The monument to Adam and Friedrich Jacob deßsen Sohn dates from 1836. It is a rectangular stele, decorated with an urn, acanthus and three cartouches with extensive inscriptions. It corresponds to the family's first grave, but is even more extensively decorated. Adam Jacob (~ 1754–1836) was the husband of Elisabeth Scherer and brother of Peter. In 1788 he built the listed gatehouse (pharmacy) in Hauptstraße 8 and the adjoining outbuildings. The inscription honors Jacob as a member of the Protestant general synod in K.lautern in 1821. At this synod, the details of the Palatinate Church Union of 1818 were discussed . His eldest son Friedrich (Conrad) Jacob (1784–1836) is immortalized as the widower of Charlotte Stephany (1789–1826) and a member of the Protestant diocesan synod of Pirmasens . As the inscription also notes, father and son died on October 3 and December 18, 1836.
The other two listed grave symbols are significantly younger and date from the 1900s. Another tomb for the quarry owner Eugen Jacob (1848–1918) is not under protection.
Tomb of Peter and Salome Jacob (1834)
Tomb of Elisabeth Jacob (1828)
Tomb of Adam and Friedrich Jacob (1836)
literature
- Heinz Friedel : Schopp. The story of a village in the Palatinate Holzland. Ed .: Community administration Schopp, 1964.
- Heinz Friedel: The Jacob family. In: Schopp. The story of a village in the Palatinate Holzland.
- August Gerle and Elise Gerle née Jacob (ed.): The Jacob family. Kaiserslautern 1931.
- List of monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate ; accessed on August 3, 2020.