Knoop Mausoleum
The Knoop mausoleum is located in Bremen , Walle district, Walle district, Im Freien Meer 32, on the Waller Friedhof . It was built until 1880 according to plans by the architect Gustav Runge and the sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp . It has been a listed building in Bremen since 2005 .
history
The two-storey mausoleum with a gable roof over the open pillar hall was built in the period of historicism in the neo-Gothic style in 1878/79 on a small hill directly on the small lake in the Waller cemetery for the entrepreneur Baron Ludwig Knoop . The sculptor Kropp modeled the figure of Christ for this in 1880.
The State Office for Monument Preservation Bremen found: "The most impressive neo-Gothic monument in the Waller Friedhof is probably the mausoleum for Baron Knoop ..."
Knoop was very successful as a textile merchant in Bremen, London and Russia. He was buried in the family mausoleum in 1894, as were eight other family members of the Knoop and Albrecht families. The mausoleum was renovated after 2005.
Knoop owned the Mühlenthal estate with the former Mühlenthal Castle in today's Knoops Park in Bremen - St. Magnus. Here is the Ludwig Knoop statue .
literature
- Harry Schwarzwälder : Life and work of the sculptor Diedrich Samuel Kropp 1824-1913 . Bremen 2002.
- Bremen and its buildings 1900, Bremen 1900.
- Friedrich Prüser : Ludwig Knoop. The founder of the Russian woven goods industry . In: Der Schlüssel 4, Bremen 1939.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 6 '32.02 " N , 8 ° 46' 1.63" O