In 1839, the year Count Ernst zu Münster died, Laves was commissioned to design a worthy tomb for the Lords of Derneburg. Now the classicist architect should finally have the …
The Derneburg pyramid serves as a burial site. The tomb was designed by Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves, architect of the Kingdom of Hanover. Ernst Graf zu Münster, his wife and their daughters are in sarcophagi in the mausoleum.