Tombs of the House of Hesse on the Rosenhöhe Darmstadt

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Information board about the park below the former palace , on which the location of the various graves of the House of Hesse is shown

The collective term graves of the House of Hesse on the Rosenhöhe Darmstadt includes those burial sites of the grand ducal family of Hessen-Darmstadt , which were laid out in the 19th and 20th centuries in different areas of the historical Rosenhöhe Park in the east of Darmstadt .

The old mausoleum was built in 1826 for a daughter of Grand Duchess Wilhelmine Luise who died prematurely and who had chosen the Rosenhöhe as the burial site for her child. After the completion of the New Mausoleum in 1910, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig had the coffins of the Grand Dukes and their family members re-arranged. They were transferred from the princely crypt of Darmstadt's city church to Rosenhöhe, where the coffins of his parents and siblings were transferred to the New Mausoleum, while the coffins of the former rulers of the Grand Duchy and their family members were moved to the Old Mausoleum. The coffins of the landgraves and their family members remained in the town church. Some of the relatives of the last Grand Duke who died after the end of the monarchy were also buried on the Rosenhöhe, but in earth graves.

Old mausoleum

Old mausoleum in Rosenhöhe Park

The old mausoleum was built in 1826 according to plans by Georg Moller in the style of a small Greek temple and was given its present shape from 1869 to 1870 following a reconstruction according to plans by Heinrich Wagner , who added two symmetrical side wings to the original building. Today it contains twelve coffins and serves as the burial place of:

New mausoleum

New mausoleum in Rosenhöhe Park

Not far from the Old Mausoleum is the New Mausoleum , which was built from 1905 to 1910 according to plans by Karl Hofmann for the parents and siblings of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig , the design of which is based on the mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna . Here are buried:

Graves of the Ernst Ludwigs family

Princess
Elisabeth's grave

At some distance from the New Mausoleum there are three grave complexes in which some members of the House of Hessen-Darmstadt from the family of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig who died in the 20th century are buried:

In an earth grave, which is adorned by an angel figure with outspread wings, which was created by the sculptor Ludwig Habich , rests:

The last Grand Duke of Hesse, who died in 1937, and the dead from his family in the 1937 air accident in Ostend are buried in a large communal grave marked with a high sandstone cross :

Apart from this common grave, the following was buried:

Another earth grave contains the remains of:

The graves of the members of the grand ducal family who died in the 20th century have been tended to since the city of Darmstadt took over the Rosenhöhe Park .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Tombs of the House of Hesse on the Rosenhöhe Darmstadt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Sabine Welsch, Stadtlexikon Darmstadt: Mausoleums ( online )
  2. * The resting place on the Rosenhöhe
  3. Princely graves as a hit with the public in: FAZ of October 6, 2011, page 51
  4. Gravesites of the grand ducal family - Stadtlexikon Darmstadt
  5. Knodt, pp. 398-411.