Austrian cross

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Austrian Cross (2012)
Austrian cross with iron grille (2015)

The Austrian Cross in Bad Honnef , a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , is the city's oldest preserved grave. It is on the corner of Am Wolfshof and Am Schönblick . The memorial stands as a monument under monument protection .

After their defeat in the First Coalition War against revolutionary France (1792), 187 Austrian soldiers died of hospital fever in Honnef in 1793 as a result of their retreat . They were buried in a field on what will later be Selhoferstraße (today Am Wolfshof ) near the later municipal cemetery (today Old Cemetery ), and in the same year a simple stone cross in Baroque shapes with an inscription was erected to designate the burial ground , which was last placed directly on the path in the hedge of a garden. Due to its location, it was exposed to damage from carts. Therefore, the cross was re-erected between 1892 and 1895 after the efforts of a manufacturer from Düren : after the owner of the garden had assigned a few square meters of his property to the community, the community had the cross placed on a base made of stone and surrounded it with a wrought-iron lattice. Emperor Franz Joseph I took over the majority of the costs of the reorganization and arranged for the Habsburg double eagle to be included in the grid. On April 21, 1895, a ceremony was held to inaugurate the monument in the presence of a representative of the Austrian government.

The monument was renovated between 1983 and 1985. The entry in the list of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef took place on October 13, 1993.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of monuments of the city of Bad Honnef , number A 168
  2. ^ A b c Karl Günter Werber : Honnefer walks . 2nd revised edition. Verlag Buchhandlung Werber, Bad Honnef 2002, ISBN 3-8311-2913-4 , p. 33 .
  3. ^ Karl Günter Werber : Alt Honnefer picture book . Third, greatly expanded edition. Verlag der Buchhandlung Karl Werber, Bad Honnef 1983, p. 84 .
  4. ↑ a b c J [ohann] J [oseph] Brungs : The city of Honnef and its history . Verlag des St. Sebastianus-Schützenverein, Honnef 1925, p. 264 (reprinted 1978 by Löwenburg-Verlag, Bad Honnef).
  5. ^ A b Heinz Firmenich (reworked by Karl Günter Werber): City of Bad Honnef (= Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection : Rheinische Kunststätten , issue 12). 3rd, revised edition, Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1987, ISBN 3-88094-541-1 , p. 15.

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 29.8 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 30.4 ″  E