Hochkreuz cemetery Neuwerk
The High Cross Cemetery Neuwerk is in the district Neuwerk in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ) Engel Blecker Street.
The cross was built in 1833. It was entered under no. E 028 on October 10, 1995 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
location
The property is centrally located directly opposite the main entrance of the Catholic cemetery on Engelblecker Strasse in the Neuwerk district.
architecture
The so-called “cemetery cross” from 1833 is the memorial cross of the grave of Neuwerker priest Peter Leufgens, who died in 1829 . A high stone cross (basalt lava) with a corpus rises on a classical sandstone plinth with a palmette frieze .
The total height is 4.03 m; the body height 1.54 m.
Latin inscriptions in recessed capitals on the base:
Front: DOMRD PETRI LEUFGENS NAT (us). MDCCLXXVI DENAT (us). MDCCCXXIX. VIRI INTEGERRIMI ANIM. PASTORIS
INDEFESSI SACRORUM CURATORIS GNAVISSIMI HEIC PRIMO SEPOSTA MOLLITER OSSA CUBENT
Right page: CUIUS VIRI QUO USUS PARENTE FAUTORE AMICO IN MEMORIAM IUSTO PIETATIS SENSU PCIP
NEUENHOFER VICARIUS MDCCCXXXIII SIBI PAROCHIS POSTERIS
Left page: CLERICORUM NOSTRATIS PAROCHIAE FUNERIBUS SACER LOCUS
Back: SEQUIMINI.
See also
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 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- 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
- ↑ 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 ′ 22.1 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 20.4 ″ E