Giselakreuz (Sodenberg)
The Giselakreuz is a field cross and is located in the Vorderen Flur on the Sodenberg , an elevation in the Lower Franconian town of Hammelburg in the Bad Kissingen district . It is one of the Hammelburg architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments under the number D-6-72-127-200 .
history
The crooked Gisela cross bears the torso of a figure of Christ, the year 1299 and on the back the coat of arms of the Lords of Thüngen .
According to a legend, the origin of the cross goes back to the unhappy love between Gerhard von Rieneck and Gisela von Thüngen, whose families were at odds with one another. Gerhard von Rieneck's father forbade his son to have any further contact with Gisela von Thüngen and refused to consent to a marriage. Gisela's father spent his daughter bitterly at Kilianstein Castle on the Sodenberg. Gerhard von Rieneck fell as a crusader in the Holy Land. Gerhard's death caused the desperate Gisela to renounce the world and to erect the cross; a little later she died.
In 1515 Philipp von Thüngen had the cross renewed.
literature
- Karl Stöckner: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 3, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen 1979, p. 204f.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 33.26 " N , 9 ° 49 ′ 36.88" E