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3. The "Old Chapel" (Holy Cross Chapel) Die "Alte Kapelle" (Kreuz-Kapelle) |
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- The choir of the former “Holy Andreas” church
- Already in 1350 an archpriest is attested, with the building process Landstuhl became a church district place ⇒ Landstuhl became the clerical hub western of Worms
- In 1521 the knight “Franz von Sickingen” committed the church and the city Nanstuel to the Protestant religious community
- 1700 the inhabitant of Landstuhl Lampert Kuhn has build the Holy Cross Chapel
- In the Napoleonic era the “Kaiserstraße” ,the Emperor street, was expanded, that is why the small chapel was destroyed (in 1811)⇒ 15 years later, its name became the name of the choir of the old “Holy Andreas” church, the nave had to be grounded
- Until 1836 the deceased were interred at the old churchyard, only the deceased, who died because of the plague
- In 1940 the cemetery at the old churchyard became titular cemetery for the soldiers who died in sickbays in Landstuhl