War memorial chapel Giesenkirchen
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The warrior memory Chapel Giesenkirchen is in the district Giesenkirchen in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Nellessenweg 80th
The building was built in 1929/1930. It was entered under number N 022 on November 20, 2006 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The chapel is located in the northwest of the Giesenkirchen cemetery near Zoppenbroicher and Kleinenbroicher Strasse.
architecture
In the chapel is a small, on a rectangular ground plan of blue red bricks in expressionistic formal language and slate roof built in an old German Deckart building . Access is through an ogival opening in the southern gable wall, which is subsequently closed with a curved grille . The opening is framed by square pilaster strips that run around the corners of the building.
The gable field rising in steps above the opening is marked by a recessed cross. The front chapel room, which is open up to the eaves, is intended as a prayer room. On the left and right there are wooden panels with the names of the fallen and missing soldiers from Giesenkirchen. They were made by the local sculptor Walter Cleef. Another arch with lattice from the workshop of the Esser brothers in Giesenkirchen separates the front prayer room from the rear, ogival vaulted chapel room, in which a reclining figure of a soldier (with a steel helmet and rifle), whose head rests on a knapsack , by the Düsseldorf sculptor, made of linden wood Josef Schneider is laid out . The inscription on the deck is: TRUE TO DEATH.
The rear window has artificial glazing from the Derix workshop in Kevelaer that blends in with the ogival shape of the room . It is signed W. DERIX . The crucified Christ is shown in the midst of warriors ' graves with the signature: I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVES.
The commissioning of the Derix company has been confirmed in company documents (order book, October 24, 1928, p. 300). At that time, the cost of art glazing was 490 Reichsmarks . In front of the chapel is the war cemetery, surrounded by a low brick wall. Inscription panels with the names and dates of life of the buried, mainly those who died in the First World War , are placed in the back wall fields of the boundary wall framed by pilaster strips. In front of the flanking side walls there are more graves with block-like inscription stones from the Second World War . The forecourt is - about the width of the chapel - with new bricks laid in a herringbone pattern - as well as water-bound areas in front of the tombs - fortified and landscaped.
The object is important for human history and for cities and settlements . There are scientific, in particular architectural and local historical reasons for its preservation and use. The property is worth protecting as a monument.
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 26.6 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 44.9 ″ E