Romanian Shtourdza cappella
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Romanian Shtourdza-Chapel - a chapel built by the architect Leo von Klenze from Munich. After the sudden death of his son in 1863, the royal family of Romania decided to build in his memory in the chapel of the spirit of the Orthodox tradition. In 1848, Prince Shtourdza, who ruled Moldova, after the revolution and the abdication of the throne, he moved with his family first to Vienna and then to Paris. Leto preferred to spend the whole family in Baden-Baden, where they lived in his own castle, located in the central part of the city.

The building of the chapel, in the style of late classicism, built of sandstone blocks of white, red and brown. Layered, they create amazing beautiful contrast to the green garden, and with four columns supporting the porch, sandstone blocks form a structure 24 meters high. Crowned with a chapel dome and an Orthodox cross. On the creation of the interior work the artist Ernst Wilhelm Hausshild who tried to develop the eastern splendor in each inner member - from the iconostasis to a high dome.

In 1923 Shtourdza capella passed into the possession of the city, and after it was included in the list of historical monuments in Germany in 1997, work began on its restoration. For six years, took part in the reconstruction of the descendants of the royal family of Moldovan.

In May 2002, a chapel consecrated by the head of the Romanian Orthodox Church and next to the chapel planted magnolia and sequoia.

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