Alte Friedhofskapelle, Cemetery chapel in Barsinghausen, Germany

The Alte Friedhofskapelle is a red brick hall church under a dark wooden gable roof, built in 1908 to a signed drawing by Karl Mohrmann. Its west gable and side walls are stepped and divided by brick arches with light plaster panels above. The main entrance has a pointed-arch surround and a semicircular panel dated "19 08" above green double doors; tall narrow windows with white frames light the interior.

The cemetery chapel was consecrated in 1908, designed by Karl Mohrmann, a Konsistorialbaumeister and university lecturer in Hanover, who signed the drawing that year. It replaced the churchyard that had served the St.-Blasius parish until 1896, when burials moved to this new cemetery on the road to Eckerde. In 1996 the Förderverein Friedhofskapelle Großgoltern was founded to fund a new chapel in the northern part of the cemetery; since its completion, the 1908 building has continued in use as a mortuary.

The chapel belongs to the St.-Blasius parish of Großgoltern, which also serves Nordgoltern and Eckerde. Since a new chapel opened in the northern part of the cemetery, the 1908 building has been used as a mortuary, or Leichenhalle, rather than for services.

The chapel stands on the southern edge of the cemetery north of the road to Eckerde, on the eastern outskirts of Großgoltern; the main entrance with the dated tympanum faces west toward the cemetery's main path. A small coffin chamber is attached to the north side. Since a new chapel opened in the northern part, this building has served as the mortuary.

The chapel owes its survival as a monument to the Förderverein Friedhofskapelle Großgoltern, founded in 1996 to raise money for a new chapel north of the cemetery, away from the busy Eckerder Straße. The old building was kept and continues in use as a mortuary; it is protected as an individual monument under object ID 31116016.