Ludwigsburg Mausoleum
The Ludwigsburg mausoleum was the burial place of the Weissenborn merchant family in the Loissin district of Ludwigsburg in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
history
In 1810, the Greifswald businessman Carl Philip Hermann Weissenborn acquired the Ludwigsburg estate, about 15 kilometers from Greifswald. His son Karl Emil Wilhelm Weissenborn had a mausoleum built around 1845 as the future burial place for the family. The first burial took place in 1849 after the death of Carl Weissenborn. In the course of the land reform , the entire estate was expropriated and the Weissenborn family fled to West Germany. In 1951 the mausoleum was rededicated as the local morgue. The coffins of the Weissenborn family were lifted from the crypt and buried in the cemetery. After the building had been empty for over 25 years, the interior was opened in September 2018 as a space for the exhibition “The rural burial chapels and mausoleums in Western Pomerania”.
Building description
The building, erected as a hereditary burial, to the west of the nearby castle chapel, was built in the neo-Gothic style. It is six by seven meters in size. The walls were made of red brick in the block association built. Two ogival lead glass windows are set into the side walls, and the walls are decorated with a console frieze under the eaves. The pointed gable front faces east, the pointed arch portal is structured by the wooden door and a tympanum with a relief of Christ. The western front is unadorned and only interrupted in the gable area by an ogival window. There are two buttresses on each of the four sides, which are at right angles to each other. The building is closed by a gable roof that is covered with copper. The ceiling in the interior is designed as a stitch cap vault that converges in the middle to form an oculus . Like the side walls, it is whitewashed. Historical inventory is no longer available.
Individual evidence
- ^ Loissin community: The rural burial chapels and mausoleums in Western Pomerania. September 18, 2018, accessed August 22, 2019 .
literature
- Published by: Community of Loissin, The rural burial chapels and mausoleums in Western Pomerania , brochure accompanying the exhibition, 2018
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Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 23.9 ″ N , 13 ° 30 ′ 26.9 ″ E