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Mausoleum of the Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld

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Mausoleum of the Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld

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Mausoleum of the Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld

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Location: Königswinter, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Cologne District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

October 8, 2018

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The mausoleum of the Counts of Lippe
In May 1820 Wilhelm Graf zur Lippe-Biesterfeld acquired the monastery courtyard in Heisterbach. The extensive area was to be modeled on English landscape …

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Karin 🐾 🇺🇦 🕊

November 20, 2022

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The mausoleum is based on designs by Ernst Friedrich Zwirner (1802-1861), who had been a cathedral builder in Cologne since 1833 and is considered one of the key initiators of the completion of Cologne Cathedral. He also came up with the plans in 1840 for the reconstruction of the Rolandsbogen, which collapsed on December 28, 1839 - a remaining castle window of the ruins of Rolandseck Castle, which, like the Heisterbach choir ruins, is one of the icons of Rhine romanticism of the 19th century.
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R.Bungartz

November 13, 2022

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The family crypt of the Counts of Lippe-Biesterfeld, created in 1840 in the form of a neo-Gothic forest chapel, was embedded in the mountain slope in the direction of the ponds created with the landscape garden expansion. Except for the gable front and part of the side walls, the mausoleum is made of Stenzelberger Latit. Source: kuladig.de/Object View/O-FJK-20100630-0019

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