The Pyramid of Rapa (Klein Angerapp) The Pyramid in Rapa is a 1811 (1795 according to another source) in the Masurian village small Angerapp (Rapa today) built the family grave of Fahrenheid, designed by Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen. The pyramid is 15.9 meters high, the side length is 10.4 meters. Tomb Today is a historic monument.
Tomb in the form of a pyramid was commissioned by Count Henry of Fahrenheid heart of the forest. The passionate collector of all kind of art was concerned early on with Egyptology and built the building, which like all pyramids, a mystical effect is said, speaks at a cemetery after the death of his first three year old daughter (another source of Baron Friedrich von Fahrenheid (1747 - 1843) as clients and his 12th on 30 1811 who died three years' granddaughter, who was buried there first).
We believe that the pyramid, this' Mausoleum in the Luschnitz "as it is called conscious, built on the point was to cross the three lines of the so-called geomantic radiation, which should have a particularly positive influence on the human body. This explains perhaps the condition of the corpses, although buried in a moist environment, is still partially mummified.
Later, other family members were and 1849 eventually bury themselves of the builders there. From the good old days, the following story takes place on the mausoleum:
often passed the people in the mausoleum of Luschnitz go to the pastures where they from Szabi came. On the estate were the Angerapp Doempke Deputanten as they had a son and a daughter. The Dömpsche itself came after Szabi to clean the church. It was used by the rapper In the estate administration for the church, which has kept it clean, swept, smudged, who made all the ole Dömpsche. It has in Szabi after forging to Kolwes past lived in the parish long widow's house, the former poor house, where later lived and the community nurse Helene Warstat and Schuster fox and Kallweit and from the backyard Stenzel, a total of four families. The Dömpsche had the smallest apartment. The daughter has even brought a child back home because they will always say: "Is it wat Scheen, so e Kindke to Hebbe un to schookle. Not like Pareeske. "Pareeske were called the bast shoes, with which it was earlier.
Once a year, had to wipe the old woman Dömp the mausoleum and the dust from the
coffins. Someone must have caught her, and she was now in it and has cleaned up since her has fallen to the door and she got the inside not on. Finally, someone came over and heard from these hatches always a call, as it has called incessantly and rumbled. At first he thought some one was in the coffin and would gebullert until he took courage and asked: "Who is DOA," and listened as she cried, could it aloud: "Here is de ole Dömp . Un blanchett hunger "
(. Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke finds yet more here. THE SUNKEN WORLD - An East Prussian village in stories of the people)
In the two world wars was the mausoleum of Soviet soldiers devastated. The coffins were opened and destroyed, the bodies were chopped off their heads. In this wretched state they are today, through the windows of some of the skeletons are visible. Meanwhile, the pyramid entrance was walled and barred the windows so that the dead now can not be further desecrated.
The way there: Between
Wegorzewo (formerly Angerburg) and Goldap, a few kilometers from the border with Russia is Rapa (former Small Angerapp). Going from there south towards Banie Mazurskie (formerly Benkheim) runs, you will pass just 200 meters beyond the exit signs on the left side of the mouth of a wide walkway that leads into the forest. Even from the street at the end of a straight path in the forest, the Natural History pyramid is clearly visible.
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