Holter cross

Wayside cross

The Holter Cross is located in the Holt district in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), Hehnerholt.

The cross was built in 1870. It was entered under No. H 095 on October 10, 1995 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The wayside cross erected as an indulgence and mission cross stands at the confluence of the street Holter Kreuz in the street Hehnerholt.

architecture

The cross stands on a high, multi-segmented base made of bluestone . Three-tiered plinth, above it a block-like plinth with a later attached plaque from 1986 with the inscription :

ST. MICHAELS / BROTHERHOOD / 1861–1986

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MISSION 1912 / SAVE YOUR SOUL

Separated by a load-bearing carnation from the central part with the inscription:

JESUS ​​/ MY MERCY / CITY. 100 DAYS OJ / O PEOPLE; REMEMBER / TO YOUR LAST / END. /. A. 1.5.1870. D.

Strong, hood-like roofing with bulges as the basis for the slim shaft cross with a new wooden body.

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 ° 11 ′ 5.8 "  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 55.6"  E