Wayside shrine on Odenwaldstrasse (Wörth am Main)
The wayside shrine on Odenwaldstraße is the oldest surviving wayside shrine in Wörth am Main . The wayside shrine made of red sandstone is listed under file number D-6-76-169-19 in the list of monuments for Wörth at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation .
description
A narrow, square stone pillar with the inscription 1862 rises on a rounded stone base. On the pillar there is a cube-shaped attachment with a relief depicting the ' Crucifixion Group '. In the middle is Christ on the cross, on the left the Mother of God with folded hands and on the right John with his head raised upwards. The same relief is also on the back of the wayside shrine. The right side shows a Renaissance ornament while there is a Latin inscription on the left. The stone attachment above the relief has the shape of a curved pyramid roof and previously carried a cross.
The inscription on the left side of the relief cube can only be partially deciphered. It gives an indication of the sufferings of Christ and contains a call to passers-by: Learn to suffer (Disce pati).
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Location
The wayside shrine originally stood outside of the then urban area, directly at the confluence of the "Scheitgasse" (connecting road to the city of Wörth) with the old Maintalstraße. The old Maintalstrasse was an important trade route at that time and in this area also represented the judicial border between Mainz and Breuberg . At this point, the wayside shrine is marked on a Breuberg map from 1615 as a prominent fixed point.
When the Miltenberg - Aschaffenburg railway was built in 1867, the wayside shrine had to be relocated. Another small shift to its current location at the corner of Odenwaldstrasse and Pfarrer-Adam-Haus-Strasse occurred when Odenwaldstrasse was expanded in 1975.
Relief on the front
Renaissance ornament (right side)
Inscription (left side)
Dating
The date 1862 carved into the wayside shrine was added after road construction work to commemorate the completion of the work on the existing wayside shrine. The wayside shrine is much older. Proof of this is the map from 1615 in which the wayside shrine is drawn. There is also a great similarity between the Renaissance ornament on the right side of the wayside shrine and an ornament on the Tuscan column in the basement of the Old Town Hall (built in 1600/01). The wayside shrine was built around the same time as the historic town hall around 1600 or shortly afterwards.
Web links
literature
- Werner Trost: Wörth am Main, Chronicle of a small Franconian town , Volume 2, 1991, pp. 487–492
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments for Wörth (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ^ Josef Volkheimer, Pfarrchronik Wörth (handwritten) p. 455
- ↑ a b c d e Werner Trost: Wörth am Main, Chronicle of a Franconian Small Town , Volume 2, 1991, pp. 487–492
Coordinates: 49 ° 47 '44.2 " N , 9 ° 9' 15.6" E