Helmet cross in Großschwarzenlohe
The helmet Cross in Großschwarzenlohe is a historic stone cross in Großschwarzenlohe , a district of the market Wendelstein in the Middle Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria .
description
The atonement cross is located on the western outskirts of Großschwarzenlohe. It is there in a small green area in front of the Schaftnacher Weg 7 estate. It is a small, slightly weathered stone cross in Latin form . The cross is made of sandstone and was scratched and significantly reduced in size during an improper restoration . Today (2020) it has the dimensions 70 × 49 × 28 cm. In 1933/34 the size specifications were, height 70 cm and width 60 cm. On a photo from 1933 there was still an incised cross and on another photo from 1977 only a severed arm. The cross was from its original location ( 49 ° 20 '20.08 " N , 11 ° 6' 44.46" O are added). At the current location there is a plaque with the inscription "Atonement Cross from 1511". The cross is there in the company of a war memorial and a wayside shrine .
history
His popular name Helmet Cross has it from a Conz helmet . According to documentary reports, the brothers Hans and Jörg Zwickel from the Sorg committed a murder on Conz Helm von Schwand . The two perpetrators compared themselves on December 12, 1511 with the margrave and the son of the murdered man and had to put up an atonement cross.
Another legend reports that a Sinti and Roma are said to be buried at the old location .
It is reported by contemporary witnesses that the stone had fallen and was raised again during bridge construction work on the Lohbach in 1907 under the direction of the then mayor Müller. Under the stone was the skeleton of a tall man with a knife in his chest. The bones were sent to the University of Erlangen to determine their age and then buried again here. The workers took the knife with them and is considered lost.
Pillar of torture
There is also a historical torture column (wayside shrine) in the green area . The small monument is made of sandstone and has the dimensions 137 × 42 × 28 cm. The picture house was probably renewed in the 18th century. A broken edge has recently been repaired and grouted. Images in the aedicula are missing and missing. The wayside shrine is pre-Reformation. With the Reformation (1517–1648), wayside shrines were no longer set up in Nuremberg and the surrounding area from 1525. A board with the inscription "Bildstock (Materl) pre-Reformation" is set up at the location. The wayside shrine is designated as an architectural monument by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (D-5-76-151-79).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Time travel in the BayernAtlas , accessed on May 24, 2020.
- ↑ suehnekreuz.de: Großschwarzenlohe I , accessed on May 24, 2020.
- ^ Roth district: Small monuments in the Roth district. Treasures of our hallways. Field crosses, boundary stones, wayside shrines, atonement crosses and much more. Roth 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815571-3-8 , p. 228.
- ↑ Hartwig Hillegeist: Ground monuments in the Wendelsteiner area. Issue No. 10, 2011, p. 34.
- ↑ Irmgard Prommersberger: Small monuments in the district of Roth treasures of our corridors. ISBN 978-3-9815571-3-8 .
- ↑ suehnekreuz.de: Großschwarzenlohe II , accessed on May 25, 2020.
- ^ Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments, Markt Wendelstein Monument , accessed on May 24, 2020.
Coordinates: 49 ° 20 ′ 19.1 ″ N , 11 ° 6 ′ 36.3 ″ E