Kreuzberg (Arnsberg)
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.jpg) Kreuzberg from the east |
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| height | 263 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Arnsberg , Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Süderbergland | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 23 '46 " N , 8 ° 3' 9" E | |
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| particularities | Kreuzbergkapelle, Kreuzweg | |
The Kreuzberg is 263 m above sea level. NHN high mountain west of the old town of Arnsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia . It rises between the Ruhr valley in the east and the Walpketal in the west. To the north it goes over to a hill, also called the Old Castle or Römberg , on which the Rüdenburg is located. Immediately to the south is the Arnsberg district of Seltersberg . A way of the cross leads from the Ruhr valley to the summit of the Kreuzberg, where there is also a chapel.
Way of the Cross
After the parish church of St. Laurentius was elevated to the status of provost church in 1859, the citizens of Arnsberg wanted a new way of the cross . The old one, located between the town and the Wedinghausen monastery, had disappeared since 1818 because of the development. For this purpose, a citizens' committee was formed which, from donations and foundations, had the stations of the cross below the old castle opposite the actual city built. Funding was partly provided by individuals and partly by groups. The fourth station was donated by the "women of the city of Arnsberg" and the fifth by "the men of the city of Arnsberg". The local veterans association paid for another one.
In 1862 the Way of the Cross was inaugurated with a total of fourteen stations. After willful damage to some stations in 1924, they were restored. All stations now received bronze reliefs by the sculptor Busch from Munich.
Kreuzberg Chapel
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The 19th century Kreuzberg Chapel marks the end of the city's Way of the Cross . The actual name is "Chapel of the Seven Sorrows of Mary." On Good Friday in 1865 the committee called for donations for a chapel as the end point as the station of the resurrection. So far there was only a simple large cross on the mountain. The architect and draftsman Karl Elis, who was also busy with the renovation of the provost church at the time, was commissioned with the construction.
The construction was completed in 1868. It was consecrated by Bishop Konrad Martin . The chapel is shaped by the spirit of late romanticism . The Apollinaris Church in Remagen is considered a model , but there are also connections to the new building of Herdringen Castle . The Cologne cathedral master builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , who was involved in both buildings, is therefore occasionally named as the draftsman of the original plans. But there is no contemporary evidence of this. The chapel has a cross plan and was built in neo-Gothic style with a pinnacle as a bell ridge.
The Way of the Cross and the chapel are, according to the Westphalian Office for the Preservation of Monuments from the 1980s: "undeniably a total work of art of national standing and a vividly preserved expression of neo-Gothic and the piety of that time."
Easter tradition
Every year on Good Friday morning, a procession of believers goes up to the Kreuzberg chapel praying the Way of the Cross . On the evening of Easter Sunday there is a torchlight procession to the Kreuzberg every year. Then the Easter fire is lit on the meadow between Kreuzberg and Alter Burg . This is one of the largest in the Sauerland. Afterwards, a fireworks display is set off.
In the first decades of the 20th century, a separate Easter fire association took care of the establishment of the Easter fire, and the Arnsberger Heimatbund has been responsible for it since 1929.
Individual evidence
- ^ GeoServer NRW, Cologne District Government, GEObasis NRW department
- ^ Peter Vormweg: The neo-Gothic in the Westphalian church building. Lindenberg im Allgäu, 2013 p. 342f.
literature
- Uwe Haltaufderheide: The architectural monuments of the city of Arnsberg. Collection period 1980–1990. City of Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1990, ISBN 3-928394-01-0 , pp. 23-25.
- Hermann Herbold: The urban development of Arnsberg from 1850 to 1900 (= urban history series of publications on the city of Arnsberg 2, ZDB -ID 260749-9 ). City administration Arnsberg, Arnsberg 1968, p. 48.
- Karl Gerd Kopshoff: The Catholic Church in Arnsberg. In: Michael Gosmann (Red.): 750 years of Arnsberg. On the history of the city and its citizens. Strobel, Arnsberg 1989, ISBN 3-87793-025-5 , 2. 336.
