Atonement Chapel Flossenbürg
The Flossenbürg Atonement Chapel, also known as the Chapel of Jesus in Dungeon , was built at the instigation of the Executive Committee for Erecting the Monument and Chapel in Concentration Camp Flossenbürg in the years 1946–1948 on the grounds of the Flossenbürg concentration camp .
history
The chapel was built from the stones of broken watchtowers from the concentration camp. As an honorary member of the aforementioned committee, Bishop Michael Buchberger supported the project with donations and in 1949 with the foundation of the oil painting Man of Sorrows , which was made by the Regensburg painter Erwin Schöppl . The inauguration of the as yet unfinished chapel was carried out by a Lithuanian bishop on Pentecost Sunday 1947. In autumn 1948 the wooden ceiling was pulled in and the missing coat of arms stones were added.
The entire complex is subject to international war graves law and is looked after by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture in cooperation with the Bavarian Administration of State Palaces, Gardens and Lakes .
Interior
Above the altar there is a group of figures carved from linden wood, in the middle is the depiction of Jesus on the cross, on his right is a prisoner working in the quarry who is struck by a sensation, on his left is a woman with children under severe conditions Load. In the entrance area, a bust commemorates the theologian and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer , who was murdered on April 9, 1945 in the Flossenbürg concentration camp.
The colored glass windows stand on the left (viewed from the altar) for the prisoners of Belgian , Lithuanian and Polish nationality, on the right for Ukrainian , German and French nationality. Two urns commemorate the mountains of ash in the valley of death in front of the crematorium there and the mass murder in this concentration camp.
literature
- Werner Chrobak : On the history of the Catholic parish Flossenbürg. In Adolf Wolfgang Schuster : History of the community Flossenbürg. Vol. 2, p. 198. Flossenbürg Municipality, Flossenbürg 1990.
- Oberpfälzer Waldverein (Ed.): Flosenbürger Monument Guide. Flossenbürg 1993, p. 12.
Web links
- Information on the website of the Volksbundr Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge
Coordinates: 49 ° 44 ′ 5.8 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 32.9 ″ E