War memorial (Sontheim)
The war memorial in Heilbronn district Sontheim on the road Staufenberg 16 originated in 1933 through the conversion of the old cemetery chapel on the 1909 repealed the old cemetery . The building is a listed building .
history
The old cemetery in Sontheim was laid out in 1559. A cemetery chapel was built in 1731, and a neo-Romanesque apse was added to the south in 1886 .
After the cemetery was abandoned in 1909, the chapel was converted into a war memorial for those who died in the First World War in Sontheim in 1933 with funds from a foundation from the neighboring Ackermann twisting mill. Inside, boards were placed with the names of the fallen, sorted by year, and the sculpture The Good Comrade by Ernst Yelin , Stuttgart, was placed.
In front of the building is a stone crucifix from 1710 with the donor coat of arms of the Teutonic Order Commander Franz Joseph von Reinach.
The former chapel is still the destination of processions on Corpus Christi .
Name plaques inside the war memorial
Sculpture by Ernst Yelin
literature
- Julius Fekete , Simon Haag, Adelheid Hanke, Daniela Naumann: Heilbronn district . (= Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, Volume I.5.). Theiss, Stuttgart 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1988-3 , pp. 261-262 .
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Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 6.3 " N , 9 ° 11 ′ 32.4" E