Hochkreuz Hardt-Venn
The Hochkreuz Hardt-Venn is located in the district of Venn in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Thomas-Mann-Straße.
The cross was erected in 1885. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on April 16, 1999 under No. T 013 .
location
The high cross is at the intersection of two paths on the old part of the cemetery in Venn.
architecture
The high cross with a height of approx. 5 m is made of brownish sandstone (possibly Ruhr sandstone). The shaft cross with the corpus and the writing tablet ( INRI ) rises above a two-tiered base and a multi-tiered, upwardly tapering central building with inscribed text . The base of the cross flows into a base that is widened several times and shaped by water hammer, which leads into a framed field with the Christ monogram sitting in a circular frame. On the front facing north towards the main entrance (Stationsweg), the central building bears the inscription:
It is a holy and salutary thought to pray for the dead. / Erected in 1885.
The reverse bears the inscription:
Property of the cath. Parish church to Venn.
The object is worth protecting as a monument for local, social and art historical reasons.
See also
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- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 (234.24 kB).
- Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012, accessed on September 23, 2012 (227.14 kB).
- 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 ° 12 '7.9 " N , 6 ° 23' 2.7" E