Mausoleum
A mausoleum is a monumental tomb in building form.
The term derives from Maussol - eion, the belonging to the ancient Seven Wonders of the World grave of mouse solos in Halicarnassus, dedicated to the governor of Caria on the west coast of modern Turkey 377-353 BC
Busy is the word mausoleum in German literature since the 16th century. In this Gramalstypus classicism of antiquity was revived, albeit in a smaller form. These are often small -scale doppelgeschossig architectures, consisting of a chapel and an underlying crypt, where crypt and chapel can be above ground together in a room. Functionals this modern mausoleums form a hybrid of buildings and monuments and perform within the Sepulkralkultur aspects commemoration of the dead, representation and appeal to posterity.
Well-known mausoleums
Asia
Turkey
- Mausoleum of Halicarnassus ( grave of the governor of Caria mouse solos ) in Bodrum / Turkey, one of the Seven Wonders of the World
- Anıtkabir - Tomb of Ataturk in Ankara
Iran, Central Asia
- Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi in Turkestan / Kazakhstan ( UNESCO World Heritage)
- Mausoleum of Attar in Nishapur Fariduddin / Iran
- Mausoleum for the king Kabus in Mazandaran province / Iran
- Timur Lenk Mausoleum " Gur -e Amir " in Samarkand / Uzbekistan
- Kharagan twin towers grave, in the province of Qazvin / Iran
- Tomb of the poet, in the province of Tabriz / Iran
Pakistan, India
- Mazar- e- Quaid for the country's founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Karachi / Pakistan
- Humayun's Tomb (a UNESCO world heritage site in Delhi / India
- Akbar 's Mausoleum in Sikandra / India
- Jahangir 's Tomb in Lahore / Pakistan
- Itmad -ud- Daula Mausoleum in Agra / India
- Taj Mahal ( UNESCO World Heritage) in Agra / India
- Bibi- Ka Maqbara, in Aurangabad / India
- Safdarjung 's Tomb in Delhi / India
- Gol Gumbaz, Mausoleum of Sultan Mohammed Adil Shah in Bijapur / India
East Asia
- Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, Xi'an, with its terracotta army ( UNESCO World Heritage)
- Mausoleum of Mao Zedong in Beijing
- Sun Yat- sen Mausoleum in Nanjing
- Kim Il Sung 's mausoleum in the converted Kumsusan Palace in Pyongyang
Southeast Asia
- Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi / Vietnam at Ba Dinh Square
America
- Che Guevara Mausoleum in Santa Clara / Cuba
- Bob Marley Mausoleum in Nine Miles / Jamaica
- " Grant's Tomb " in New York City / USA (the largest mausoleum in North America)
Africa
In Africa, the pharaohs tombs in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, to name but especially the counting of the seven wonders of the ancient pyramids of Giza, which are also to be expected also to the oldest mausoleums in the world. More pyramid tombs found in Nubia.
- Mausoleum of the Pharaoh Cheops
- Mausoleum of the Pharaoh Chephren
- Mausoleum of the Pharaoh Menkaure
- Mausoleum of King Djoser
- Mausoleum of the pharaoh Tutankhamun
Maghreb
- Mausoleum of President Habib Bourguiba in Monastir
- Mausoleum of King Mohammed V in Rabat
Europe
Bulgaria
- Georgi Dimitrov - Mausoleum in Sofia. After 1990, Georgi Dimitrov was buried at the Central Cemetery of Sofia. The mausoleum was demolished in 1999.
Germany
- Mausoleum of the Wettin dynasty in Erbbegräbnisstätte on the grounds of the monastery Altzella
- Mausoleum of the East Frisian noble family Cirksenas in Aurich, Ostfriesland
- Stourdza Chapel - Romanian Orthodox grave chapel in Baden -Baden
- Mausoleum at Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin, built for Queen Luise
- Mausoleum in the castle park Biickeburg the Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe
- A pyramid-shaped mausoleum of William ( Schaumburg -Lippe ) near Castle tree at Biickeburg
- A pyramid-shaped mausoleum of Ernst Münster in Derneburg Castle
- Mausoleum of the Princes of Schaumburg -Lippe in Hagen
- Mausoleums in the park Rosenhöhe in Darmstadt
- Mausoleum of the Dukes of Anhalt in Dessau
- Mausoleum of the Princes of Wied - Runkel in Dierdorf, Westerwald
- Mausoleum of Karl August Lingner, inventor of Odol mouthwash on the grounds of Lingner castle (actually Villa Stockhausen) in Dresden, Saxony
- Stollwerck Mausoleum in Feldkirchen -Westerham, Upper Bavaria
- Mausoleums at the main cemetery in Frankfurt am Main
- Mausoleum of the Kings of Hanover in Mountain Park in Hanover
- Grave chapel of the Grand Ducal Baden Family in Fasanengarten in Karlsruhe
- Mausoleum of Emil von Behring in Marburg - Marbach
- Mausoleum of the Grand Dukes of Oldenburg in Oldenburg
- Mausoleum of the Princes of Bentheim -Tecklenburg ( Rheda- Wiedenbrück )
- Mausoleum of Otto von Bismarck in the Saxon Forest
- The grave chapel on the Wuerttemberg in Stuttgart- Red Mountain, the mausoleum for Queen Catherine Pavlovna
France
- Mausolée du Maréchal de Saxe in St. Thomas, Strasbourg, built for Hermann Moritz of Saxony
Greece
- Mausoleum Heinrich Schliemann at the First Cemetery of Athens
Italy
- Pyramid of Cestius in Rome
- Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome
- Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome
- Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna
- Mausoleum of Galla Placidia in Ravenna
- Julius Tomb in Rome
Croatia
- ( Were buried where he and his family members ) The Mausoleum of Ivan Mestrovic in the village Otavice at Drniš ( Dalmatia ).
- Mausoleum of Emperor Diocletian in Split. ( Within the palace walls of Diocletian's Palace )
Netherlands
- Mausoleum of the German Emperor Wilhelm II in the park of Huis Doorn
Austria
- Mausoleum of the Ruprecht von Eggenberg in honor Hausen, Styria
- Mausoleum of Emperor Ferdinand II in Graz
- Mausoleum of the gold castle in Murstetten, Lower Austria
Poland
- Mausoleum of Prince Anton Radziwill in the park of Antonin family in Poznan
- Mausoleum of the family of Hoym in Dyhernfurth in Silesia
- Blücher 's Mausoleum in Krieblowitz in Silesia
- Grave chapel of the noble family Henckel von Donnersmarck at Neudeck castle in Upper Silesia
Russia
- Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow / Russia on Red Square
Serbia
- The House of Flowers in Belgrade grave of Josip Broz ( Tito )
Spain
- Mausoleum L. Aemilius lupus in Fabara, Zaragoza, Aragon
- Mausoleum of Attilier in Sádaba, Zaragoza, Aragon
Czechia
- Klement Gottwald Mausoleum at Prague's St. Vitus mountain ( mummy was removed in 1962 because of decay )