Crucifix at Drees

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The crucifix at Drees is a crossroads of wood in Ostbevern Drees-rest and is since March 30, 2001, listed building .

description

The free-standing high wooden cross with titulus and roof has a carved wood body. Today a plaque with the following inscription is attached to the lower longitudinal beam:

O wanderer stop!
Do not pray to
neither wood nor stone,
but
only the true God in heaven!
Our Father - Ave Maria

history

The saying instructing the passer-by about the right kind of prayer has its origin in the Counter-Reformation environment. In the 17th century, Prince-Bishop Christoph Bernhard von Galen had many cross paintings that had been destroyed during the Reformation erected again and added the following motto: "Effigiem Christi, dum cernis, semper honora. Non tamen effigiem, sed quem disignat, adora. " ("If you look at Christ's picture, you should always do him honor, but never praise the picture, only the one it represents.") Inscriptions on the cross were reproduced in various places for this verse.

Indeed, the cross has played a role in the dispute between Catholics and Protestants. It originally stood high up on Lienener Damm, at the entrance to Hof Niehues. It was probably donated by Johann Mauritz Niehues and his wife Anna Clara Ansmann around 1814. Tradition has it that he met his wife at the age of 25 in Greven , when he deserted from the French service in 1812 in the face of the impending demise of Napoleonic troops. This doubly happy outcome of the war was possibly the reason for the foundation. According to tradition, it is said to have been damaged there several times by Protestants from Kattenvenne . That is why it was moved near the village in the 19th century.

The Niehues family remained the owners until 1976, which was also expressed by a sign on the cross. A storm on January 3, 1976 tore the cross over. The cross beam was made anew by the carpenter Hermann Drees, known as "Ruhe", and set up at the current location.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Vicar Gr. Vorspohl et al .: wayside crosses and wayside shrines in the parish of St. Ambrosius Ostbevern , No. 24
  2. ↑ G. Wagner: Baroque passion cult in Westphalia. Münster 1967, p. 63

literature

  • Vicar Gr. Vorspohl in connection with the parish of St. Ambrosius Ostbevern (ed.): Wayside crosses and wayside shrines in the parish of St. Ambrosius Ostbevern. Krimphoff, Füchtorf 1978, ISBN 3-921787-03-9 , number 24 (authors: Josef Gr. Vorspohl, Reinhard Drees, Norbert Reher).

Coordinates: 52 ° 2 ′ 38.9 ″  N , 7 ° 51 ′ 0.3 ″  E