Memorial cross to the Lockhütter Weg

War memorial

The memorial cross Zum Lockhütter Weg is in the Lockhütte district of the Bettrath-Hoven district of Mönchengladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The war memorial was built in 1950. It was entered under No. Z 004 on January 22, 1997 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The memorial cross is on the other side of the motorway bridge, immediately before the city limits in the direction of Viersen .

architecture

The simply structured brick system consists of a solidly bricked shaft cross with a Christ body made of cast bronze on a traditional pillar base, which is integrated in the middle of a high, altar-like pedestal. Right and left two marble inscription panels:

left inscription: "To the silent memory of the fallen and missing"
right inscription: "the Honschaft Lockhütte"

The originally listed names of the fallen in the district were later removed. A footfall from the beginning of the 18th century is embedded in the cross-bearing central pillar . It is made of Liedberg sandstone and is emphasized in the center by a holy niche closed with a metal grille. In the niche is a figure of the Madonna donated by Ms. Elisabeth Heitzer in 1981. The previous location of the footfall is specified in a document that was included in the annex: on the old military road from Neuss to Viersen at the level of the former Piperhof in Bettrath-Lockhütte.

The protection is therefore in the public interest for reasons of local history.

literature

Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

swell

List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 .
Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .

Individual evidence

↑ List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach (PDF; 433 kB)

51.229107 6.439931Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 44.8 " N , 6 ° 26 ′ 23.8" E

[1] List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach (PDF; 433 kB)