Veszprém – Haiszler Chapel

This is a free-standing, circular chapel oriented towards the west in the Alsóváros Cemetery. It is a Classical Revival building with a shingled mansard roof, a semicircular apse and an entryway structure. The entryway structure is decorated with four three-quarter detached columns crowned by a pediment, and there is a ridge turret on top of the pediment. There is a stone-framed double door on the central axis with a round window above and one semicircular arched window decorated with a wrought iron grate in each of the side bays. There is a chronogram providing the year of construction in the frieze of the cornice supported by the columns, which reads, “GEORGIVS HAISZLER EX HAEREDITATE SVI FILII GEORGII / SVI SVAQVE FAMILIAE CAVSA EIVS EX VOTO FIERI STATVIT”. There is a base and a tripartite main cornice running along the side façades and the apse, and the wall sections are divided by Doric pilasters. Each of the side façades has a lunette window, and the apse has a semicircular arched window. The entryway structure has a barrel vault, and the chapel area is domed. The side walls of the chapel area are divided by six pilasters that support the tripartite main cornice decorated with painted stucco ornaments. There are murals on the side walls that depict the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden on the left and The Fall of Man on the right. The image of the Last Judgement is mostly destroyed. The chancel arch and the vault of the semicircular apse are decorated with coffered paintings. There is a little organ gallery over the entrance of the chapel area. Read less