Kreuzberg (Wessobrunn)

Kreuzberg municipality Wessobrunn Coordinates: 47 ° 52 '47 "  N , 11 ° 0' 45"  E
Height :	745 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	7  (May 25 1987)
Postal code :	82405
Area code :	08809
Chapel of the Holy Cross

Kreuzberg is a district of the municipality of Wessobrunn in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau .

geography

The wilderness of Kreuzberg is located about one kilometer northwest of Wessobrunn on the St2057 state road on the western slope of a 755 m high moraine hill .

history

In 955 invading Hungarians murdered the abbot and monks of the nearby Wessobrunn monastery . The so-called Hunnenstein, on which the monks are said to have been executed, is located in the Kreuzberg chapel. There is also a ceiling painting that is reminiscent of martyrdom.

Later Kreuzberg belonged to the closed Klosterhofmark Wessobrunn . In 1761 five properties are mentioned, four quarter courtyards and one eighth courtyard. All farms were landable for the Wessobrunn monastery, the high jurisdiction lay with the Landsberg district court .

Attractions

• Holy Cross Chapel from 1595, remodeled in 1771

See also: List of architectural monuments in Kreuzberg

literature

• Pankraz Fried, Sebastian Hiereth: Altbayern Row I, Issue 22-23: Landsberg Regional Court and Rauhenlechsberg Nursing Court . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria . Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1971 (327 pages).

Web links

Commons : Kreuzberg  - Collection of Images

• Kreuzberg in the location database of the Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online . Bavarian State Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official directory for Bavaria, territorial status: May 25, 1987, Munich, 1991. Retrieved on May 3, 2019 . 
2. ↑ History & Sights, Wessobrunn. In: Wessobrunn Monastery. Accessed February 2, 2019 (German).