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Gießen District

Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg

Selters

Fegfeuer Memorial Chapel

Gießen District

Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg

Selters

Fegfeuer Memorial Chapel

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Fegfeuer Memorial Chapel

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Location: Selters, Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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Niklas

May 2, 2020

About 250 meters east, at an old crossroads, is the tomb chapel of August Freiherr von Kruse († 1848) and his wife Henriette, née von Dungern († 1873). The small memorial chapel in the Romanesque round arch style with gable and wall pedicules consists of a small prayer room and the death chamber with the coffins on the back of the building. The walls show imitation cuboid joints on smooth stone. In the first chapel built there was an altar with the image of "souls in purgatory", which gave today's chapel and this section of the hall its name "Purgatory".
On Ascension Day, this chapel is still the target of a procession by the Catholic community in Eisenbach. This tradition probably goes back to the Friday alms given by Baroness Henriette von Kruse for poor Eisenbachers. She and her husband Lieutenant General Baron von Kruse are buried in the chapel. A later owner also found her final resting place there.
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Christian aus S.

December 13, 2023

The chapel is the burial place of the Nassau Major General August Freiherr von Kruse († 1848) and his wife Henriette, née von Dungern († 1873). He received the estate in 1822 in recognition of his services in the wars of liberation.

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Christian aus S.

December 13, 2023

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Elevation 300 m

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Location: Selters, Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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