Grave cross at Kirchplatz 1 (Stieyen)
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The grave cross at Kirchplatz 1 (Stieyen) is in Korschenbroich in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The cross was built in 1702 and entered under No. 101 on May 26, 1987 in the list of architectural monuments in Korschenbroich .
architecture
The grave cross is a cross made of Liedberg sandstone 16.5 cm deep and 49 cm wide from the year 1702. On the front is the inscription " IHS " above , under the image of a skull with crossed bones. The grave inscription, as far as it can be deciphered, reads "Anno 1702 DEN ... ANTONIUS STIEYEN IS DORN IN THE MAN GSD". On the back there is the inscription "IHS" with an attached cross, below a heart with three arrows and a small cross. 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