Egidienstein

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Front of the Egidienstein, 2011
Back of the Egidienstein, 2011

The Egidienstein , also called Egidiusstein , is a historic stone cross in the Erlangen district of Eltersdorf . The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists it under monument number D-5-62-000-846.

Location

The Egidienstein is about 800 meters southeast of the center of Eltersdorf near Sonnenstrasse in a hallway called Dickenasch on the historic city route to Nuremberg .

description

The three-pass-shaped hall monument made of sandstone is about 195 cm high, 110 cm wide and 35 cm deep. The front shows under the now weathered inscription “S. EGIDIVS “a relief of St. Aegidius with a crook in his right hand and a doe at his feet. The back bore a four-pass depression in the shape of a year, which has now disappeared and according to drawings and various sources it is said to have been around 1396, 1596 or 1796. The cross rests on a stone base with the year 1774, which is not visible under the surface of the earth.

  • Drawing of the Egidienstein (front side), 1837

  • Drawing of the Egidienstein (back), 1837

history

Nothing is known about the period and the reason for the establishment of the Egidienstein. The fact that Saint Egidius developed into the new patron of the Eltersdorf parish church and the community in the 16th century suggests that the stone originates from that century. Another theory assumes that it was set up as a boundary stone to the Nuremberg Reichswald as early as 1398 . The field name Dickenasch (for "thick ash "), which was attested as early as 1429, referred to a forest area originally belonging to the Reichswald and later cleared.

Until around 1900, the municipality of Eltersdorf commissioned a tüncher to paint the Egidienstein white or red every year before the church fair. Since 1977 a small celebration of the opening of the parish fair has been taking place there again, whereby the stone is not painted.

After a restoration in 1986, the Egidienstein was moved a few meters to the north.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) )
  3. ↑ a b c Sabine Meßmann: Egidienstein . In: Christoph Friederich, Bertold Freiherr von Haller, Andreas Jakob (Hrsg.): Erlanger Stadtlexikon . W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2002, ISBN 3-921590-89-2 ( complete edition online ).
  4. ↑ Hans Heinlein: On the origin of the Egidius stone near Eltersdorf . In: Heimatverein Erlangen und Umgebung e. V. (Hrsg.): Erlanger building blocks for Franconian homeland research . No. 35 , 1987, ISSN  0421-3769 , pp. 91-104 .
  5. ↑ Franz Zettler: The stone cross . The land monuments of the district of Erlangen. In: Mitteilungs-Blätter of the German Stone Cross Research . No. 1/2 , 1942, p. 12-13 .
  6. ↑ Erich Birkholz, Hans Jobst Rohmer: Eltersdorf. The résumé of our homeland . Self-published by Erich Birkholz, Erlangen-Eltersdorf 2006, p. 426 .

Web links

Commons : Egidienstein (Eltersdorf)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '54.6 "  N , 10 ° 59" 38.2 "  E