Religious Places of Commemoration
at Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site
Dachau is without equal among concentration camp memorial sites as far as
religious memorials and places of commemoration are concerned. One reason was
the importance of Dachau as a central concentration camp for Catholic priests.
In the late 1950s the church took this up as a motive of remembrance and had,
spurred by the former prisoner in Dachau and suffragan bishop to be, Johannes
Neuhäusler, the monumental Chapel of Mortal Agony of Christ erected at the end
of the former Camp Road.
Chapel of Mortal Agony of Christ (1960, architect: Josef Wiedemann)
Protestant Church of Reconciliation (1967, architect:Helmut Striffler)
Jewish Memorial (1967, architect: Hermann Zvi Guttmann)
Russian Orthodox Chapel of Remembrance of the Resurrection of Christ (1995)
Carmelite Convent of the Holy Blood (1963/64, architect: Josef Wiedemann)