Crucifixion group (Bad Wimpfen)
The listed crucifixion group is in Bad Wimpfen , a town in the Heilbronn district in Baden-Württemberg .
The crucifixion group is located on the oldest burial site in Bad Wimpfen, right next to the town church . Remnants of an inscription on the cover plate of the substructure name the mayor of Wimpfen, Hans Koberer , as the founder . It was created between 1509 and 1519 by the Mainz sculptor Hans Backoffen .
The crucifixion group shows in larger than life figures the dead Savior on the cross between the two other crucified on Golgotha, the good and the bad thief. On the left at the foot of Jesus' cross, between the Savior and the good thief, the kneeling Mary Magdalene and the standing Mary weep for the son. The figure of the Evangelist John on the side facing the evil thief has been lost. The canopy built in 1551 to protect against the weather was donated by the patrician families Koberer, Visch and Haug. Two niches in the base served as wind protection for death lights .
The base and the lower parts of the cross are made of Heilbronn sandstone , all upper parts of Eifel tuff . The two cross beams of the Christ Cross are deceptively similar to wooden beams that are fixed to one another by four iron nails. There is a small hollow on the Christ cross, which used to contain a cross relic .
literature
- Barbara Riederer: Notes on Hans Backoffen's crucifixion group in Bad Wimpfen. In: Research and reports on the archeology of the Middle Ages in Baden-Württemberg, Vol. 8, Stuttgart 1983, pp. 453-465. (not evaluated)
- Franz Gehrig : The crucifixion group by Hans Backoffen in Bad Wimpfen am Berg . In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research , volume 10, 1987, pp. 213–217.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 13 ′ 50.6 ″ N , 9 ° 9 ′ 40.6 ″ E