Eichsfeld Cross
The Eichsfelder Kreuz stands north of the Hessian town of Wanfried, right on the border with Thuringia . The stone, corpusless cross with tapered arms was erected in 1980.
location
The cross stands on a small hill (approx. 340 m) below the Hülfensberg on the Hessian-Thuringian state border and former inner-German border on the district road K13 / K115 between Wanfried and Döringsdorf . Today it is due to the German Green Belt .
history
With the expansion of the inner-German border and the tightening of the border regime , it was no longer possible for the Eichsfeldern living in neighboring Hesse to make a pilgrimage to the Hülfensberg. In the 1970s, former Eichsfelder built a way of the cross from simple wooden crosses on Döringsdorfer Straße towards the border. In 1980, a stone cross was erected on a small knoll close to the border fortifications and inaugurated on June 14, 1980. Processions from Wanfried up to the Eichsfelder Kreuz were carried out as a substitute for the Hülfensberg pilgrimages.
The desire arose to build a small replacement chapel at this point. This was finally built and consecrated as the Chapel of Unity in 1992–1993 . In the floor of the chapel there is a map of the Eichsfeld and in front of the chapel a map of Germany with the former border line. In September 1984 the Eichsfeld Home Days of the Association of Eichsfeld Clubs took place in Wanfried and at the Eichsfelder Kreuz.
Others
In 1981 Karl Leineweber published a poem on the Eichsfeld Cross in the Eichsfeld Heimatstimmen .
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Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '44.2 " N , 10 ° 9' 52.9" E