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Grabdenkmäler Reichel und TilesiusFuneral Monuments for Reichel and Tilenius |
artist unknown
1796 & 1802 |
Two pyramids with reliefs and texts on all sides. They are mentioned in an eary 19th century book, Christian Gottlieb Altenburg, Topographisch-historische Beschreibung der Stadt Mühlhausen in Thüringen, 1824:
p. 239 and 394-97: "…der Superintendent Reichel der erste, der auf dem Kirchhofe begraben wurde [1796]. Auf dessen Grabe noch die Pyramide zu seinem Andenken gegen Morgen an der Kirche steht (…) Auf seinem Grabe, gegen der Erfurter Gasse, steht an der Kirche eine Pyramide als Leichenstein , wo auf dem Postament die Inschrift zu lesen: 'Wilhelm Gottlieb Reichel, Superintendens Mortalis esse desiit Anno MDCCLXXXXVI, d. VII. Januar'." [the Superintendent Reichel was the first to be buried in the churchyard [1796]. On his grave stands a pyramid to his memory against morning at the church (...) On his grave, against the Erfurt lane, stands at the church a pyramid as a funeral monument, where to read on the pedestal the inscription: 'Wilhelm Gottlieb Reichel, Superintendens Mortalis esse desiit Anno MDCCLXXXXVI, d. VII. Januar'].
The other is possibly for mayor Adolph Gottfried Tilesius, died 1802, (p. 237-238) "Hernach ließ auch der Herr General v. Pelet auf seine Kosten ein Monument in Gestalt einer Pyramide zum Andenken des Burgermeisters auf das Grab setzen, weil sie beide aus Schlesien stammten" [Afterwards, General v. Pelet erected at his expense a monument in the form of a pyramid to the memory of the mayor put on his grave, because they both came from Silesia].
The two stood formerly at the North Portal of the Divi Blasii Church.
We could not identify the figures on the reliefs (portraits? saints? allegories?)
Northern pyramide
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Southern pyramide:
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