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 ".