{"id":1001,"date":"2022-02-06T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rundgang.museum-weissenfels.de\/?post_type=pano_objects&#038;p=1001"},"modified":"2022-03-16T14:06:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:06:40","slug":"furstengruft","status":"publish","type":"pano_objects","link":"https:\/\/rundgang.museum-weissenfels.de\/en\/pano_objects\/furstengruft\/","title":{"rendered":"Princely Crypt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The princely crypt \u2013 the burial place of the ducal family of Weissenfels \u2013 is located under the altar of the palace church and is accessible via an iron hatch in the floor. <br>During funerals, the dead were transported into the church on a funeral carriage. The horses were then led back out through the sacristies, and the carriage was pushed back to the door. The coffin was placed on a bier in front of the altar, surrounded by figures, candles, and other specially made funeral decorations. After the funeral service, the coffin was lowered down the stairway on a winch. Once in the crypt, it was carried to its assigned place. <br>Some of the coffins are richly decorated with inscriptions, figures, and allegories; others have a simple design and are made of wood. The many children\u2019s coffins in the crypt testify to the high child mortality rate in the period, even in princely families. <br>A total of 38 members of the Weissenfels ducal family are buried here. Others are buried in Barby, Dahme, and Leipzig\/Erfurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1001","pano_objects","type-pano_objects","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rundgang.museum-weissenfels.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pano_objects\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rundgang.museum-weissenfels.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pano_objects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rundgang.museum-weissenfels.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pano_objects"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rundgang.museum-weissenfels.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}