Bezau War Memorial Chapel
The Bezau War Memorial Chapel is a Roman Catholic chapel on the Mount of Olives in the Greben district in the Austrian municipality of Bezau (Vorarlberg).
The chapel was built in 1924 according to the plans of the architect and sculptor Kaspar Albrecht . The furnishings include wood and clay reliefs, which were also created by Albrecht. The war memorial chapel today serves as a memorial to the 43 war dead of the First World War and the 92 fallen and missing soldiers as well as civilian dead from the Second World War from Bezau. In relation to the population, the market town of Bezau had "to bear the greatest personal suffering nationwide". The chapel stands within an almost square inner courtyard, the surrounding walls of which connect to the left and right of the western outer wall of the building. In September 2009, a memorial plaque for the Bezau “ euthanasia ” victim Jodok Meusburger (1895–1943) was installed and consecrated in the chapel.
literature
- DEHIO manual. The art monuments of Austria: Vorarlberg. Bezau. Chapel in Greben. War memorial. Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.), Verlag Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7031-0585-2 , page 20.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alwin Denz: Hour of Light & Remembrance at the war memorial chapel on the "Mount of Olives" in Bezau. Austrian Comradeship Association , accessed February 24, 2010 .
Coordinates: 47 ° 22 ′ 43.3 " N , 9 ° 54 ′ 12.1" E