Stollwerck mausoleum
The Stollwerck mausoleum is a mausoleum in Hohenfried in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Feldkirchen-Westerham .
history
The mausoleum was inaugurated on September 27, 1927. It was built by Consul General Karl Stollwerck , the son of the founder of the Cologne Chocolate Factory; because of its founder, the mausoleum is also called the Chocolate Church. The mausoleum served as a burial place for his adopted daughter Carlita: She died on September 27, 1911 at the age of nine and was first buried in the crypt of the Stollwerck family in the Melaten cemetery in Cologne before she was transferred to the Stollwerck mausoleum in 1927. Their adoptive parents were also buried here: Karl Stollwerck on October 6, 1932, Fanny Stollwerck in January 1943. While after the death of Fanny Stollwerck the Stollwerck's villa in Hohenfried was seized by the National Socialists and Albert Ganzenmüller was made available Fanny Stollwerck bequeathed the mausoleum to the specially founded Fanny Carlita Foundation . This still exists today and has been administered by the Bavarian Ministry of Culture since 1968.
From the beginning, the Stollwerck mausoleum was not just a tomb, but also served the Protestants in the western Mangfall valley as a place of worship, who only had their own with the inauguration of the Johannes Church in Bruckmühl on October 10, 1954 and the Emmaus Church in Feldkirchen on Advent 1983 Churches were available. The fact that a mausoleum is used as a church is initially unusual - but Karl Stollwerck expressly wanted to build a church service room for the Protestant parishioners, as otherwise they had to drive to the church in Bad Aibling . Church services are still held in the Stollwerck mausoleum today: Church services are held regularly once a month, as well as on special holidays and occasionally for baptisms or weddings.
Facility
The mausoleum was richly decorated on behalf of Stollwerck:
- The altar cross was already used at Carlita's funeral in 1911 in Cologne
- Marble cross on the Carlitas sarcophagus
- Altar candlesticks and sacrament implements from the workshop of the Cologne goldsmith Gabriel Hermeling
- Pulpit with two tablets of the Ten Commandments
- marble font
- ornate altar
- Marble relief of the Lamentation of Christ
- Marble relief of the blessing Christ
- Bronze statue of John the Baptist by Josef Engelhart
- Stained glass window by Gustav van Treeck depicting the birth and crucifixion of Jesus
- Christmas crib by Jakob Bradl
- two wall tapestries
- Altar Bible bound in leather
- Resurrection fresco over the three sarcophagi, created by Hermann Neuhaus
Building
The building combines neoclassical architecture with Persian elements and also has echoes of a late Art Nouveau. At the entrance is the inscription Built in 1927 for the glory of God and our Savior .
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Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 9 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 55 ″ E