Unser Gästebuch - Grabkapelle für Johann von Luxemburg - Kastel-Staadt, Germany
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A guestbook named "Our Guestbook" inside the burial chapel of Johann von Luxemburg located Klause bei Kastel in Kastel-Staadt, Germany.
Waymark Code: WM173KK
Location: Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Date Posted: 12/02/2022
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Inside the chapel, a guest book lies on a small table.
The guest book is very luxurious and a pen is provided.
A hardcover book with photos of the chapel on the cover and with gold print "Unser Gastebuch."
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John of Luxembourg, German also John of Bohemia, later called John the Blind, was King of Bohemia 1311-1346, Margrave of Moravia, Count of Luxembourg and titular King of Poland 1311-1335. (
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"The tomb of the Blind King John of Bohemia is a masterpiece of the famous Prussian architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
High above the Saar, on the top of a protruding sandstone rock, lies the hermitage of Kastel-Staadt. The sandstone plateau on which the hermitage is located was already used as a place of worship by the Celts and Romans. In the early 17th century, a Franciscan monk built a chapel in the rock. The Prussian Crown Prince Frederick William, later King Frederick William IV, had the long abandoned ruin turned into a burial chapel for the Bohemian King John the Blind after 1833. The famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel designed the structure in the spirit of southern Romanticism with round-arched windows, columned arcades and a bell gable reminiscent of Italian models. The bones of the Bohemian king rested in the hermitage from 1838 until they were transferred to the cathedral in Luxembourg in 1946. Overall, the hermitage is considered a highlight of German Romanticism."
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