Harrach crypt on the Holy Cross
The Harrach crypt of the Holy Cross (Czech Harrachovská hrobka sv. Kříže ) is located in Horní Branná , Okres Semily in the Czech Republic . Until 1945 it was the family burial place of Counts Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen on Jilemnice / Starkenbach and is now used as a mourning and concert hall.
location
The Harrach crypt stands in the center of the village between the castle and the church opposite the Harrach hospital on the road to Jilemnice.
Building
The extraordinary single-storey and listed building consists of two superimposed octagonal prisms with the same axis. It shows elements of neo-Romanesque and oriental buildings. Below is the black marble-clad crypt with the coffins of Counts Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen, in which the names and titles of those buried were inscribed on panels in gold letters.
history
In 1840, the owner of the Jilemnice / Starkenbach family entourage, Count Franz Ernst Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen (1799–1884), laid the foundation stone for a new family burial opposite the hospital. After 30 years of construction, the crypt was consecrated on September 4, 1870. In 1875 the coffins were moved from the St. Alois Hospital Chapel, which had been used as a burial chapel since the end of the 17th century. In 1884, the builder Franz Ernst Graf Harrach, who died in Nice , was buried. With a large funeral procession in which eight princes and other nobles from the counts and barons as well as the residents of the entire area took part, his body was transferred from the castle to the crypt.
Johann Nepomuk von Harrach received an equally splendid funeral service in 1909 , to which the Mayor of Prague and other public figures traveled on a special train from Prague.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.hbranna.cz/historie-obce/branna-harrachu/
- ↑ http://www.hbranna.cz/historie-obce/branna-harrachu/
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 33 ″ N , 15 ° 34 ′ 3 ″ E