War memorial chapel (Herxheim)
The war memorial chapel in Herxheim bei Landau is located on today's lower Kirchberg in the immediate vicinity of the Church of St. Maria Himmelfahrt .
Architectural style
In 1830 it was built on the site of the former town hall and school building as a “guard and detention center”. The planning came from the Munich Architecture Committee, headed by Leo von Klenze . The classical style of the chapel with its four-column portico is unmistakably in the tradition of the Herxheim town hall , the cornerstone of which was laid on May 27, 1824.
modification
After the First World War , the building was converted into a memorial chapel in 1922 according to plans by Wilhelm Schulte , which is still owned by the Herxheim community today. Inside the chapel there is a sandstone plaque with the names of the more than 400 fallen and missing in the community as a result of the Franco-German War and the First and Second World Wars. There is also a late Gothic crucifixion group. The war memorial chapel is a listed building .
Web links
- War memorial chapel in Herxheim in the online project Gefallenenkkmäler (copies of the names of fallen and missing persons)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clemens Jöckle: Prussian influences on classicist architecture in the Palatinate, comments on the activities of Johann Friedrich Samuel Schwarze in the Palatinate. In: Palatinate home. Volume 29, Issue 4, pp. 131–141, here p. 132.
- ↑ Chapels in Herxheim and Hayna