Way of the Cross to the Bergkirche (Laudenbach)

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Beginning of the Laudenbacher Kreuzweg to the mountain church

The way of the cross to the mountain church in Laudenbach , a district of Weikersheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg , is located on the outskirts and leads up to the mountain church Laudenbach . The Freilandkreuzweg is a listed building .

history

The approval to set up Stations of the Cross along the mountain relay with 255 steps on manorial land was granted to the Catholic Church in 1878. Thereupon “14 good relief pictures made of paper mache , made at Dijon in France” were placed on the relay. At the height of the fifth station there is also a wayside shrine from 1609, the inscription of which indicates that the Würzburg Vogt Valentin Gering had the staff attached and set up the wayside shrine, and asks for prayer for Gering.

Stations of the Cross

The Laudenbacher Kreuzweg comprises the following 14 stations:

See also

Web links

Commons : Kreuzweg zur Bergkirche (Laudenbach)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Stuttgart Regional Council : List of architectural and art monuments (in Weikersheim) as of January 26, 2012.
  2. ^ Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Pilgrimage sites of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart , Rottenburt, 6th edition 2017, p. 77 ( digitized version )
  3. The permit is now in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , cf. www.landesarchiv-bw.de .
  4. State Statistical Office, description of the Mergentheim Oberamt , Bissinger 1880, p. 607

Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '20.6 "  N , 9 ° 55' 17.1"  E