Count Wilhelm's burial pyramid

Count Wilhelm's burial pyramid

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Count Wilhelm's burial pyramid

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Location: Bückeburg, Landkreis Schaumburg, Lower Saxony, Germany

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August 14, 2017

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In a pyramid-shaped mausoleum south of Castle Baum, Count Wilhelm, his wife and their little daughter rest in three black marble coffins:
Below the top of the grave pyramid is a stone slab with two round dark metal plates with the coat of arms of the count (left) and the countess (right). In each case around her in the stone slab her life data and below are horizontally engraved the life data of her daughter: Above the with a gate to the burial chamber of the pyramid is located on a gray oval metal plate the following inscription:

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Destination Valhalla

April 24, 2021

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The pyramid can be found in the park of Jagdschloss Baum. One can walk freely.

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Helmut H

September 27, 2019

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Pyramid grave near Bückeburg
A footpath leads from Schloss Baum to the pyramid grave. In 1774, at the age of only three, Count Wilhelm's only child, daughter Emilie, died. The parents could not get over the death, Graf Wilhelm's young wife passed away two years later and he himself followed in the following year. All 3 are buried in the 21-tier grave pyramid.
At that time, the Schaumburg counts and princes were buried in the mausoleum in Stadthagen. Count Wilhelm, however, chose this form of the last resting place in nature.

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