Remembrance Chapel Black Madonna

This chapel is on the Goethestraße in Remagen; this place was the Golden Mile in the spring of 1945, the place where prisoners were guarded.

The then mayor, Hans Peter Kürsten, the founder of the Remagen peace museum, built the "Schwarze Madonna" chapel on the street between Remagen and the Kripp district on the street between Remagen and the Kripp district from donated money. More than 1,200 former prisoners were involved in the laying of the foundation stone on June 22, 1985. The festive inauguration took place on October 9, 1987. In the chapel is the "Black Madonna" in an ascylinder that was taken from the mud of the "Goldene Meile" by the prisoner of war Professor Adolf Wamper (1901-1977) in the preservation period.

The Americans held 250,000 German prisoners in the camp. Historians estimate that between 1,000 and 1,200 of them died of disease in the camp. Many of them were buried in the soldiers' cemetery in the municipality of Bodendorf (today Bad Bodendorf), which belonged to Remagen. The chapel should be a reminder of this with its applied texts.

At the top of the chapel is a crown of thorns, which is a reminder of the pointed wire that was around the site as a fence. The Peace Chapel is also the only chapel to date that commemorates the camp.

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Source

• Text: Henny van Loenen & Eva Fiolet
• Photos: Henny van Loenen
• Wikipedia