Grave Cross at Kirchplatz 1 (Küppers)
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The grave cross at Kirchplatz 1 (Küppers) is located in Korschenbroich in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The cross was built in 1708 and entered under no. 102 on May 26, 1987 in the list of architectural monuments in Korschenbroich .
architecture
The grave cross is a cross made of Liedberg sandstone 18 cm deep and 57 cm wide from the year 1708. The visible side is the actual back of the cross. On the front facing away is the inscription " IHS " at the top and a picture of a skull with crossed bones at the bottom. On the back of the cross there is a cross with an attached body and several different figure ornaments. The inscription on the front reads “ANNO 1708 THE 4th MERZ IS METTEL KÜPPER'S GOD BLESSED IN THE LORD DORN GWDSGS”.
The cross is of artistic and ethnological importance and therefore worth preserving as a monument.
literature
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Korschenbroich. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
- 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]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 26.3 " N , 6 ° 30 ′ 50.3" E