Wayside shrine on the Armündersteig

Original wayside shrine from the Armsündersteige in the House of City History in Heilbronn

Copy from 1957 near the original location

The wayside shrine on Armsündersteige is a large sandstone sculpture from 1514 that is exhibited in the House of City History in Heilbronn .

The wayside shrine was originally on the way to the high court at the beginning of the "Armsünder- or Galgensteige" on the Heilbronn Galgenberg . The year 1514 can be read in Gothic script under a relief with Jesus carrying the cross and surrounded by mockers. The shaft and edge of the wayside shrine are made in the shape of a tree with stumps and two branches tied together to form a circle, which enclose the relief with the biblical scene. The picture "was intended to exhort the wrongdoers who were led to the gallows in the last hours of their earthly life to reconciliation with God, to sincere repentance through which they could find grace before the heavenly judge" .

A copy of the wayside shrine that the Heilbronn artist Robert Grässle created in 1957 is located near the original location on Armsündersteige .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.stadtgeschichte-heilbronn.de/#/mittelalter/reichsstadt/armsuendersteige/
2. ^ Helmut Schmolz and Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn - history and life of a city . 2nd Edition. Anton H. Konrad Verlag, Weißenhorn 1973, p. 63, no. 133 [ wayside shrine on the Armsündersteige ]

literature

• Christhard Schrenk, Hubert Weckbach: The past traced - pictures of Heilbronn's history from 741–1803 , Heilbronn 1993, No. 9.

Web links

Commons : wayside shrine at Armsündersteige (Heilbronn)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 8 ′ 49.8 "  N , 9 ° 14 ′ 14.2"  E