Hochkreuz (wayside cross in Bonn)
Hochkreuz is the name of a crossroads in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn on Godesberger Allee ( Bundesstrasse 9 ), between the districts of Friesdorf and Hochkreuz .
history
The wayside cross was probably donated around 1340 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Walram von Jülich (1332–1349), made in the Gothic style by the Cologne Dombauhütte and erected on the road between Bonn and Bad Godesberg.
With the advent of Rhine romanticism towards the end of the 18th century, the Hochkreuz became a much-visited attraction for travelers on the Rhine. Serious damage that occurred over the centuries, as well as the new romantic interest in Gothic, led to an extensive restoration of the monument in 1859 according to plans by the Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner . A cross that had been on the top of the stele until the restoration was no longer executed in favor of a Gothic finial . The large figures in the plinth niches, Christ , John the Baptist and two angels , were renewed by the cathedral sculptors Christian Mohr and Peter Fuchs.
The expansion of the old country road to Bad Godesberg to become a federal road in 1957 required the crossroads to be relocated about 50 meters to the south.
In 1979 the structure was dismantled again, restored and put up again in 1981 in the entrance area of the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . A true-to-scale replica of the monument has stood at today's “Hochkreuz” tram stop.
Similar pillars
The two columns called Spinnerin am Kreuz in Vienna ( Spinnerin am Kreuz (Vienna) ) and in Wiener Neustadt ( Spinnerin am Kreuz (Wiener Neustadt) ) as well as the Hochkreuz in Frauwüllesheim , the sermon column and the path column at Bonn have a certain similarity with the Bonn High Cross Jakobstor , which is one of the monuments on Fürst-Anselm-Allee in Regensburg . The structure of the Bonner Hochkreuz shows some kinship with the Xantener Hochkreuz.
Spinner on the cross in Vienna
Spinner on the cross in Wiener Neustadt
The high cross in the cloister of the Xanten Cathedral
The high cross, engraving by Rudolf Bodmer
literature
- Adolf Berchem: The high cross. A Gothic monument from the 14th century . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter: Annual issue of the Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg , Issue 20, Association for Home Care and Home History Bad Godesberg eV 1982, ISSN 0436-1024 , pp. 37-63. [not yet evaluated for this article]
- Yearbook of the Rhenish Preservation of Monuments , 1985, ISBN 3-7927-0825-6 .
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, pp. 271–274 (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 5, Section 3, pp. 567–570). (Unchanged reprint Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1981, ISBN 3-590-32113-X ) ( Internet Archive )
Web links
- Website with information about the Hochkreuz in Bonn
- The High Cross around 1832 , engraving by William Tombleson
- A legend about the Bonn High Cross in 1789
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ' N , 7 ° 8' E