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Duke George the Bearded, last Catholic ruler of Albertine Saxony (1471-1539) commissioned from Adolf Daucher about 1518-19 an entrance portal for his chapel in Meissen Cathedral. Hans Daucher is documented as having designed - and with his father Adolf Daucher, helped to execute - the portal of the chapel. The elements of the structure were delivered from Augsburg to Meissen in 1521 and installed about 1524. Five meters high, the portal consists of an arched limestone doorway, flanked by serpentine columns, whose double cornice supports a relief of the Lamentation framed by smaller columns and crowned by a low, shell-shaped semi-circle.
During renovations undertaken between 1856 and 1865, the portal was shifted to the inside wall of the chapel, but it was restored to its original position outside the entrance in 1977.
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