His red sandstone tombstone depicts him as the canon of St. Goar and not as a monk from Eberbach: His full regalia consists of the elongated biretta as a headdress as well as the upper vestment, the chasuble, under which both ends of the stole peek out, resting on the dalmatic, the lower vestment. The chalice held in front of the chest and blessed with the right hand is typical of the depiction of canons. On his left arm, Ludwig wears the Manipel, a cloth band that looks like a scarf and marks his higher orders.
Despite the shallow depth of the relief, the monument is of remarkable quality in terms of its fine details and naturalistic materiality. For example, the ornamentally adorned chasuble fits exactly into the folds of the robe on which it is placed. It is similarly realistic when the outer garment folds up into folds at the bottom due to its weight. The late Gothic tracery, in which a cross-shaped stonemason's mark can be found, is of the same quality as the funerary inscription.
Source: German Inscriptions Online (43, no. 265), Academy of Sciences Mainz
Image of the tomb: Michael Leukel
The epitaph in Gothic minuscule reads:
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