Heiliges Grab Görlitz, Gothic chapel complex in Görlitz, Germany

The Heiliges Grab in Görlitz is a late-Gothic ensemble of three chapels: the double Chapel of the Holy Cross with the lower Adam Chapel and upper Golgotha Chapel, the Anointing Chapel, and the Holy Sepulchre Chapel, a scaled copy of Jerusalem's pre-1555 edicule. The rectangular double chapel has a needle-spired roof turret; the Golgotha floor holds three round depressions marking the crosses, and a channel leads down to the Adam Chapel. The photograph shows rough-hewn grey, tan and reddish stone, two blind round-headed arches, grilled arched windows, and a four-columned lantern with a carved band and rounded dome.

A wealthy mayor ordered the complex built between 1481 and 1504 following his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, wanting to bring the religious experience of Jerusalem's sacred sites to his city. The project emerged from a desire to make such devotional travel unnecessary for his fellow citizens.

The complex is also called the Görlitz Jerusalem. Its street names and the hills north of the chapel reproduce the topography of the Holy Land: the Ölberg, the Kidrontal and the Jüngerwiese. The route from the crypt of St. Peter and Paul to the chapel serves as the Stations of the Cross, and its length of 709 or 721 metres matches the distance from Pilate's house to Golgotha.

The chapels stand on the road from the Old Town and Nikolaivorstadt toward Girbigsdorf, north of the Neisse. The route from St. Peter and Paul Church runs 709 or 721 m depending on the path, matching the distance from Pilate's house to Golgotha. The terrain rises toward the Mount of Olives and Gethsemane area, so expect slopes.

The processional route from St. Peter and Paul Church to the Holy Cross Chapel measures 709 or 721 metres depending on the path taken; 721 metres matches the distance from Pilate's house to Golgotha in Jerusalem. The complex was begun in 1480 after the city council applied to the Bishop of Meissen for a stone cross chapel.