Hahnenböhler Cross

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Hahnenböhler Cross

The Hahnenböhler Cross on the demarcation of the small Palatinate town of Deidesheim is an iron double cross that is classified as a cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate .

description

The field cross is north of Deidesheim and west of Forst on the Weinstrasse in the midst of vineyards in the Gewann "Hahnenböhl". It is mounted on a limestone rock about five meters high and it is 4.5 meters high. Its upper transom has a length of 1 meter, the lower transom a length of 1.4 meters. It is painted white and can be seen from afar in the plain.

The cross is marked with the Christ monogram IHS , above which there is a double cross. Underneath it says “ERI. 1803 E R NE T . 1886 ".

history

According to an article in the Dürkheimer Anzeiger from April 6, 1886, the cross was erected a few days earlier instead of a wooden predecessor from 1803. The Spindler family, who came from Forst, had both the previous cross and the successor set up. The cross weighs over eight hundred pounds for this item and was made by the locksmith Langhäußer from Deidesheim.

Before 1803 there was probably no cross on the limestone rock, because it was previously mentioned in descriptions of the vineyards as “Hahnböhl's head” or “Hahnböhl's button”; If he had already carried a cross at that time, this would have been mentioned instead of the rock.

meaning

The Hahnenböhler Cross is a weather cross . These were previously set up on roads leading to the village or in exposed places in order to keep harm away from villages and corridors. They were mostly very high wooden crosses, often also double crosses, from which one expected particularly effective defenses. Double crosses, the shape of which goes back to early Christian times, used to be common as amulets or devotional pictures, for example there were many replicas of the Scheyr cross , which was said to protect against illness, thunderstorms and hail. Weather crosses should extend the protection of the small images to the entire village community.

Web links

Commons : Hahnenböhler Kreuz (Deidesheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Bad Dürkheim district. Mainz 2020, p. 39 (PDF; 5.1 MB; see: Weather cross in the vineyards west of Forst within the Hahnenböhl tub ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Berthold Schnabel : Religious cult marks in Deidesheim, Forst, Niederkirchen and Ruppertsberg. Part 2. In: Heimatfreunde Deidesheim und Umgebung (Hrsg.): Heimatblätter Deidesheim und Umgebung . No. 10 , 1973, p. 3.5.6 .
  3. ↑ The characters are clearly visible in this picture . They probably mean "built in 1803" and "renewed in 1886".
  4. ^ Georg Peter Karn, Rolf Mertzenich: Bad Dürkheim district. City of Bad Dürkheim, municipality of Haßloch, municipalities of Deidesheim, Lambrecht, Wachenheim (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.1 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1995, ISBN 3-88462-119-X , p. 214 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 25 ′ 21.7 "  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 45.79"  E