Baden-Baden Travel Answers

I put here two images of this monument See please kodakgallery.com/gallery/cre...

Sorry but I cannot get your Link to open , From your description it sounds like some kind of memorial - possibly to those fallen in war.

Did it look like this? If so it was the funeral chapel of a noble family

Oops -sorry - here is the Link - mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/...

No, the image you show is Stourdza chapel, and this is what I wanted to visit but could not find. Thank you in any case. I'll try to find another way to upload the pictures of the monument which I don't know exactly what is, even I understood that it is for heroes fallen in a war.

Have a look at this Link- roughguides.com/travel/europ... It says the Chapel is behind Trinkhalle...

You could upload a photo on your homepage here on VT, or create a Baden-Baden page. Let us know here when the photo is online, I'll have a look at it. At the moment I cannot think of such a monument in Baden-Baden but the inscription you quote indicates some kind of war memorial, either 1870/71, World War I or World War II. The Romanian chapel is at the top end of Stourdzastraße, and apart from one villa and the chapel there is not much else in that little street. I am curious now to see what you found. I know Baden-Baden quite well but there might be a surprise.

Thanks Kathrin, I uploaded the photos in Picasa now picasaweb.google.com/lh/sred...

Kathrin, I did know that I can upload pictures in VT. Thank you for this idea! I put the pictures there.

No Ranger, this is again the image of Stourdza chapel, which I could not find it, but I would like to! Thank you anyway.

I have the answer. Somebody in another forum told me that this is Kriegergedächtniskapelle is at Solmsstrasse. I did not walk enough to reach Stourdza, it seems that we walked only 1/3 of the distance! Any case, now I have to find more info about this chapel which I saw by mistake.

Oops. Now this is interesting. I have never seen that building. It is a war memorial, probably not World War II but older. Do you have a more detailed photo of the inscriptions under the cross so they are readable? Funny enough, the city of Baden-Baden have this on their website: baden-baden.de/static/virtue... Unfortunately the page does not say where this panorama was taken. But I think I have located it on Google maps: on the slope behind/above Trinkhalle but below Solmsstraße. Stourdza chapel is located on the same hill but much higher up, I think you did not walk far enough. Does anyone know it?

Kriegergedächtniskapelle translates to no more than "warrior memorial chapel" - but we still don't know who and which war.

The inscription over the entrance is a slightly modified version from a poem of Theodor Körner (1791-1813). Which was typically used from memorials dedicated to the Befreiungskriege (Wars of Liberation - part of the Napoleonic Wars). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodo... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCtzow... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German... Don't think that the plates inside are tombs. Sadly not readable on your photo apart from a few single words. Seems just more words of remembrance.

Very interesting, Abalada. The tombs and the cross were in an interior, locked room; I took the picture through the fence and could not see what is written.