Wayside shrine (Ramsberg)

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The pillar of torture with both crosses

The wayside shrine in Ramsberg am Brombachsee , a district of the market town of Pleinfeld in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , consists of a torture column and two stone crosses next to it . The wayside shrine is registered under the common monument number D-5-77-127-13 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list. You are on a main road south-east of the town center not far from the Bahnberg at the Weinbergstrasse junction on a strip of green, framed by some trees at a height of 436 meters above sea ​​level . You are standing on an old pilgrimage route from Stopfenheim to Heiligenblut .

The torture column dates from the 17th century, is 2.20 meters high and is made of sandstone . The column of baroque origin rests with a base in the floor and carries a top in curved lines; the aedicula has probably been lost. According to the vernacular, the column was created in memory of Ullein Schmied, who drowned at the Langweidmühle , but this is considered unhistorical.

The two cross stones are of medieval origin, heavily weathered and also made of sandstone. For whom the two crosses were erected is unknown. According to a legend, the crosses indicate two fallen Swedish soldiers from the Thirty Years' War , but the crosses are several centuries older.

  • The pillar of torture

  • One of the two stone crosses

  • The other stone cross

literature

  • Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 .

Web links

Commons : wayside shrine and two stone crosses in Ramsberg am Brombachsee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ wayside shrine in the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Topographic maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas )
  3. ↑ a b Municipality of Ramsberg (ed.): Ramsberg , Pleinfeld 1978, p. 25.
  4. ↑ Entry on suehnekreuz.de, accessed on October 4, 2019.
  5. ^ Community of Ramsberg (ed.): Ramsberg , Pleinfeld 1978, p. 24.

Coordinates: 49 ° 7 ′ 0.1 ″  N , 10 ° 55 ′ 37.6 ″  E