Moenchengladbach death hall

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Hall of the Dead
Hall of the Dead

The Mönchengladbach death hall is located in the main cemetery in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) at Birkenallee 50.

The building was built in 1938/41. It was entered under No. B 159 on March 28, 1995 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

After the two old cemeteries on Bettrather Strasse were no longer occupied and were included in the design of the Kaiserpark, the public main cemetery on Viersener Strasse was opened in 1902. Here is the mortuary hall on the northern half of the cemetery on the other side of the railway line. Integrated into the overall design structure, its forecourt is centrally aligned with the main axis of this area.

The building complex of the Totenhalle is designed and formulated as an irregularly structured complex with ancillary buildings, two inner courtyards and a three-sided "assembly courtyard" as a creatively closed ensemble, with symmetrical and axial relationships emphasizing the closed nature of the complex. The center and axial midpoint is the mortuary hall flanked by symmetrically arranged outbuildings or covered passages. It presents itself as a monumental-looking plastered building (roughly structured rough plaster) in the form of a hall church with a rectangular “choir” and an elevated transverse section in front, which includes a two-storey vestibule with a gallery . The main facade, which is unopened except for three entrance portals, is emphasized by elaborate sandstone structures . As a central axial accent, a large figure niche in a radial frame.

The larger-than-life sculpture made of shell limestone "Wanderer between two worlds" was created in 1940 by the Mönchengladbach-based sculptor Theo Akkermann , who was already represented at important national exhibitions and was entrusted with important public commissions. Massive edge structures at all corners of the transverse wing, which are repeated in varied designs in the other buildings. A gently sloping gable roof as a conclusion. Structure of the nave next to two entrances by four narrow, uniform vertical rectangular windows and one smaller in the right axis ; all in analog, radial sandstone setting . The roof is designed as a gable roof, hipped on one side. The interior of the hall is characterized by a rustic beamed ceiling , which corresponds to a large-area artificial stone floor.

Which subordinating annex building, with the exception of the half floors, gabled staff residential house and the like basilika with clerestory formulated Aufbahrung tract designed as a simple, single-storey Putzbauten with pitched roofs, partially cantilevered far. The two elongated cell tracts on the eastern building boundary show a catafalque (artificial stone) in the 17 corpse cells for the installation of the coffins .

The protection of the property was in the public interest for reasons of architectural history, urban history, religious and cultural history.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 7.2 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 15.3"  E