Holy Cross Chapel (Hechingen)
The Gothic Holy Cross Chapel is located on the edge of the municipal cemetery of Hechingen south of the city on the road to the district of Boll .
Friedrich XII. , from 1401 to 1426 Count von Zollern , known as the Öttinger , donated the chapel in 1403.
The following original tradition is linked to the chapel: A servant of the count shot at a crucifix there in order to become an infallible shooter ( Freischütz motif). He could not move and was beheaded. The chapel was built as atonement.
The story already appears in Hexenhammer and in the Chronicle of the Counts of Zimmer . It is shown on two picture panels from 1729 (as is the wayside shrine in which the crucifix was located in the Hohenzollerisches Landesmuseum in Hechingen). A number of versions of the saga of the infernal shot exist from the 19th century .
View from the east
View from the north
inner space
Crucifix in the choir
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Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 22 " N , 8 ° 58 ′ 11.35" E