Gallows Marter
The Galgenmarter is a wayside shrine near Pleinfeld , a market town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district in Central Franconia . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-161-47 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.
The torture is in the forest on the Postwirtsbuck corridor northeast of Pleinfeld on the old road to Mischelbach not far from today's Nürnberger Straße and Bundesstraße 2 at an altitude of 386 meters above sea level . It is made of sandstone , was built in 1603 and depicts a column with a picture house and an inscription below with the year. It is 2.25 meters high. The torture served as the last opportunity to pray for convicts when they were led from Sandsee Castle to the gallows.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Marter , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (PDF, accessed on October 6, 2019).
- ↑ Topographical Maps , Bavarian Surveying Office ( BayernAtlas ). Retrieved October 6, 2019.
- ↑ Entry on suehnekreuz.de, accessed on October 6, 2019.
- ^ Josef Lidl : Churches and chapels in and around Pleinfeld. Gunzenhausen 1987. p. 79.
Coordinates: 49 ° 6 ′ 35.6 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 53.6 ″ E