Hochkreuz Bockersend

Hochkreuz

The Hochkreuz Bockersend is located in the Bettrath-Hoven district in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The cross was built in 1900. It was entered under No. B 154 on November 12, 1996 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

architecture

The object is in the center of the cemetery in Bockersend, which was built around 1900. The high cross is a multi-segmented cross structure using various grave elements . Material: white sandstone ; Total height: 6.00 m.

On a three-tier artificial stone pedestal rises a grave altar with a Gothic gable top . To top it off, a fial-like structure from which the cross with the corpus towers high. On pillar-supported pedestals Maria (left) and Johannes (right) flanking as assistance figures. On the inscription panels:

Upper plinth panel: "Christ vincit, Christ regnat, Christ imperat"
Lower panel: "Pie Jesu Domine dona eis requiem"
below: "Erected for the consolation of poor souls in the jubilee year 1900 by the parish of Bettrath".

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

literature

• 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 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [accessed on June 2, 2012]).

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• List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 2012 . 
• Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 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 ° 13 ′ 35.3 "  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 6.8"  E