Way of the Cross (Poppenroth)

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Crucifixion group next to the New Cemetery in Poppenroth.

The Way of the Cross in Poppenroth is located in Poppenroth , a district of the Bavarian spa town Bad Kissingen in the Lower Franconian district of Bad Kissingen at the exit of the district towards Katzenbach next to the New Cemetery . The Way of the Cross is one of the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered in the Bavarian Monument List under the number D-6-72-114-218 .

history

First station on the Way of the Cross, one of the two new stations created by Michael Arnold .

According to the inscriptions on the back, the stations of the Stations of the Cross were created between 1753 and 1756. The stations of today's Poppenrother Stations of the Cross originally formed the Stations of the Cross from Bad Kissingen on the Stationsberg there .

The stations were sold to Poppenroth in 1892 when they fell into disrepair due to the lack of interest of the Bad Kissingen citizens and were initially moved behind the Kissinger Herz-Jesu parish church and the sculptor Valentin Weidner successfully promoted the establishment of a new way of the cross in Bad Kissingen. The purchase to Poppenroth was donated by Poppenroth, known as "Nunnä-Fräla", Katharina Pfrang; she had left the monastery, which she had entered as a young woman, for health reasons. According to the Poppenroth teacher Weigand, Katharina Pfrang acquired the stations from the city of Bad Kissingen for a price of 800 marks and brought them to Poppenroth in Bittfuhren. The fact that Katharina Pfrang personally transported the figures from Bad Kissingen to Poppenroth in the Huckelkorb is a legend.

Due to Weigand's information, the information given by the painter Agnes Bals, daughter of the Münnerstadt painter Ignaz Bals, is also considered incorrect, according to which the sculptor Michael Arnold is said to have received an order from the city of Kissingen to create a crossroads in 1849, which he then passed on to Katharina Pfrang have sold.

As the location for the cemetery, the community chose a place on the outskirts towards Katzenbach next to today's New Cemetery . The hollow there consists of barren soil and may have served as a gravel pit in the past.

Around the middle of the 19th century, the first two stations of the Poppenrother Kreuzweg were replaced by new stations created by Michael Arnold, possibly due to weathering. The new stations are in the late classicist style and bear Arnold's signature. This can be seen, for example, in the first station in the expression of the boy who hands the governor Pontius Pilate the bowl of water in which the latter washes his hands "in innocence".

literature

  • Josef Wabra: Guide through the Kissinger Rhön, Landeskundliche Schriftenreihe for northern Lower Franconia , issue 10, published by the Bad Kissingen district and the district home nurse of Unterfranken, Bad Kissingen, 1968, p. 237
  • Josef Wabra: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 2, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1996, pp. 156–157
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 148 f .
  • Werner Eberth : Michael Arnold. A sculptor of the late classicism . Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 2001
  • Cross-ways ... - From Stationsberg to Poppenroth , in: Peter Ziegler: Celebrities on promenade paths - Emperors, kings, artists, spa guests in Bad Kissingen , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X , p. 179 -184

Web links

Commons : Kreuzweg (Poppenroth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Eberth: Michael Arnold - A Sculptor of Late Classicism , Theresienbrunnen-Verlag Bad Kissingen, 2001, p. 180f.
  2. ↑ a b Denis A. Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: Monuments in Bavaria - City of Bad Kissingen , Edition Lipp (1998), p. 148
  3. ^ Weigand: The stations of Poppenroth , in: Heimattreue , 1932, No. 9
  4. ↑ a b Cross-ways ... - From Stationsberg to Poppenroth , in: Peter Ziegler: Prominenz auf Promenadenwege - Emperors, Kings, Artists, Spa Guests in Bad Kissingen , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2004, ISBN 3-87717-809-X , P. 183
  5. ^ "Forgotten art treasures in the Rhön" , published in "Official health resort list of Bad Kissingen" , 1934

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 54.5 ″  E