Grabkapelle der Familie Röchling
Grabkapelle der Familie Röchling stands in Saarbrücken, at the southwestern end of the former villa garden in Am Triller. Its white-plastered neo-Gothic form rises from a large bossed sandstone base. Architect Franz Josef Hermüller built the private chapel between 1907 and 1908.
A small hall contains two cross-vaults, four quatrefoil windows, and a rectangular choir. Three round-arched windows light the choir beneath a steep hipped roof and slender bell tower. Inside, a wooden ambo, Horst Linn’s cross, and urn niches shape the prayer room. A colourful Puhl & Wagner glass mosaic shows Christ offering intercession among floral motifs.
A central walled opening once lowered coffins into the crypt using a mechanical lift. A staircase reaches a small balcony overlooking the crypt, where a round window lights numerous urn niches. Six family members rest in coffins inside a side room clad with black labradorite slabs. Restorations in 1964 and from 2013 to 2015 preserved the protected monument’s historic fabric.
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