Way of the Cross (Pleystein)
The Way of the Cross in the Upper Palatinate town of Pleystein leads to the Kreuzberg and the Heiligkreuz pilgrimage church .
The fourteen stations of the cross were erected in 1880 as a replacement for an older classical layout dating from around 1800 . The colored ceramic reliefs are inserted into an aedicule on a stepped pedestal. Each station is crowned with a cross. The stone carvings were made by K. Schmidt from Braunetsrieth , the relief images were made by the Preckel brothers from Stadtamhof . Pastor Father Alfred Blöth had the Way of the Cross renovated in 1987.
In 1954 the idea arose to erect a free altar at the end of the Way of the Cross. The work was implemented at the suggestion of Father Bartholomäus Lunz with the active participation of the population; it was inaugurated on May 9, 1954. On it stands a stone Christ on the cross , which originally stood by the stairs to the mountain, and underneath is the statue of Our Lady , a work of the Pullach artist Peter Moser, carved from copper . The open air tariff was also provided with a loudspeaker system for holding trade fairs.
literature
- Siegfried Poblotzki : 175 years of Kreuzberg-Kirche Pleystein: texts and documents on the history of the pilgrimage church and the monastery on the Kreuzberg; [1814-1989]. Verlag Pfarrei Pleystein, Pleystein 1989.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 47.5 ″ N , 12 ° 24 ′ 40 ″ E