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Mausoleum of Count Ernst zu Münster

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    February 27, 2021

    Count Ernst zu Munster, his wife and their daughters are kept in sarcophagi in the pyramid. To the side of the pyramid lies his son, Prince Georg Herbert Münster zu Derneburg, his eldest daughter Marie, "the faithful daughter of her father" (grave inscription) and a daughter of Count Ernst zu Münster. The following generations of the zu Munster family rest in the tombs in front of the pyramid: Alexander Fürst zu Munster, Georg Herbert's second son, his wife Muriel and their son Friedrich Graf zu Munster, who is still popularly known today as Graf Fredi. The Celtic high cross on the tomb of Princess Muriel indicates her origin from Scotland.

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      October 31, 2020

      We are not in Egypt here, but in the middle of Germany. We also have strange buildings!
      Here is the story:

      In the year of death of Count Ernst zu Münster, 1839, Laves received the order
      to design a worthy tomb for the Lords of Derneburg. Now
      the classicist architect should finally have the opportunity to create a
      to realize recurring ideas in his designs:
      the steep Egyptian pyramid. The massive, geometrically symmetrical one
      The formal language of Egyptian architecture was gladly adopted by classicism.
      As a student, Laves has drawings of Egyptian buildings and sculptures
      have to copy the most accurate. Piranesi's etchings were certainly his
      known from ancient Rome and thus also the in the year 12 BC. Built in BC
      Cestius pyramid, which may have served as a model. The Derneburgers
      Pyramid is a little more than 11 meters high and its angle of slope is
      61 degrees. The door with the Munster coat of arms runs around twice
      wrapped Egyptian round rod, and an Egyptian fillet with double rows
      Leaf tips decorate the entrance. With all the admiration for the Egyptian cult of the dead
      remained the mausoleum by a large cross over the entrance as a Christian
      Burial place recognizable. There was originally a den on the stone door
      Funerary inscription attributed to Freemasons legible: “The progression is eternal
      to perfection, although on the grave the trace disappears from the eye ".

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        June 17, 2021

        Pyramid in the forest, very interesting

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          Location: Holle, Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany

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