List of land monuments in Buxheim

Coat of arms of Buxheim

Location of the municipality of Buxheim in the Unterallgäu district

The list of field monuments in Buxheim provides an overview of field monuments (field crosses , wayside shrines , boundary stones , Marterln ) in the municipality of Buxheim and in the district of Westerhart . In addition, the land monuments are listed in the list of monuments of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation as of August 2014. In addition, other land monuments ( memorial stones , accident crosses , etc.) are included, but without any claim to completeness.

Notes on the information in the table

• In the column Location the name of the place, hamlet etc., as well as the street or the direction from the respective part of the town, in or near which the land monument is located, is given.
• The type of monument is given in the Name column , e.g. B. floor cross, wayside shrine, etc.
• The year of construction or the period in which the land monument was created is given in the Date of Origin column .
• The monument number of the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments is given in the Monument Number column , provided that the land monument is under monument protection.
• In the column , the geographical location can be displayed on various maps by clicking on the icon.
• In the Additional Information / Inscriptions column , further details or the original inscription on the site monument are given in quotation marks.

Except for the picture column , all columns can be sorted.

Landmarks

Location	designation	Time of origin	Monument number		Additional information / inscriptions	image
Corner of Stadtweg / Rudolf-Diesel-Straße	crossroads				The wayside cross was erected on the occasion of the people's mission in Buxheim in 1922. It was formerly on the outer wall of the Church of St. Peter and Paul and has been relocated several times since then, most recently in 1982/1983.
City route	Field cross	1879-1880			The field cross erected in the 19th century bears the inscription Im Kreuz ist Heil.
At the Charterhouse	Christophorus				The figure created by students of the wood carving school in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was inaugurated on June 3, 2006.
Egelseer Strasse	Field cross	1880-1890			The 4-meter high metal cross with a colored body stands on a stone base.
Upper Crossroads 12	Field cross	1870			The field cross consists of a metal cross with a body. It stands on a stone base with an inscription.
Upper Crossroads 51	Field cross				Wooden cross with a body made of metal, which was made in 1950.
At the Charterhouse 5	Portico and lost Marian column				The portico bears the coat of arms of the Imperial Charterhouse of Buxheim surrounded by the Roman dates MCCCCII (1402) and MDCCCIII (1803).
graveyard	Grave cross				The cross marks the priest's grave in the cemetery. It was moved to this location in 1984.
graveyard	Cemetery chapel	17th century	D-7-78-123-6		The cemetery chapel from the 18th century is covered with a gable roof and has an arched opening. Inside there is a body with the representation of the body of Christ. A protective matelmadonne is set up above it. The figures are believed to date from the 20th century.
Cemetery, funeral hall	painting				Painting by Priest P. Johannes Menth (1931-2001).
graveyard	Field cross				In the middle of the cemetery area is the field cross consisting of a high stone base with a metal cross and body.
Dirt road at Reutenbach	Field cross	1993			The wooden cross, on a low stone base, was inaugurated on May 20, 1993.
Schmiedberg 11	Crucifixion group	18th century	D-7-78-123-7		The body of the crucifix probably dates from the 15th century, the two assistant figures Maria and Johannes from the 18th century and were probably made by Johann Baptist Hops.
Kirchberg	War memorial	1920			The memorial was erected in 1920 and commemorates the fallen of the two world wars. It bears the inscription Our Fallen and Missing 1914 1918 and 1939 1945 in memory of the Buxheim community.
Churchyard	Mount of Olives				Until 1954 there was a scene from the Mount of Olives at this point. There is only one walled-up niche.
Buxacher Strasse 5	Wayside shrine	17th century	D-7-78-123-10		Evangelist column. The paintings were created by Johann Friedrich Sichelbein in 1684, but were completely overpainted in the early 2010s.
Schenkgartenweg / Wiesenstrasse	Wayside shrine				Small building with a gable roof and barred door, behind a wooden crucifix with a body. Formerly existing assistant figures were stolen.
Hauptstrasse 31	Floor cross				Wooden cross with a metal body, probably from the 19th century.
Aumühle	Wayside shrine	17th or 18th century			Figure of Christ on the scourge column in a small chapel with a gable roof and lattice door.
Illerstrasse	Wayside chapel	18th century	D-7-78-123-8		Square building with a tent roof and profiled eaves cornice
Klingelstrasse 13	crossroads				The wayside cross is made of wood and does not have a body. In 2014, the third cross since the Second World War was at this point.
Klingelstrasse	Field cross	2000			The field cross was inaugurated on May 8, 2002. It consists of a wooden cross on a stone base with a plastic body. It bears the inscription God bless our hallways 12.2000.
Schmiedeberg 5	House sculpture	17th century			House sculpture of St. George. There is a copy above the entrance door.
church Square	sculpture				Sculpture of St. Jerome Aemiliani.
Schillerstrasse 13	Mural	1962			The painting was created by Walter Roos in 1962. It represents Saint Martin.
Poplar Avenue	Wayside shrine	1965			The wooden wayside shrine is located on the site of the old kindergarten and was inaugurated on September 24, 1966.
Hauptstrasse 39	blackboard				Metal plaque depicting St. Ignatius.
Ziegelstadelweg	Wooden figure				Carthusian monk carved from the trunk of an elm. The figure was erected in 2007 and inaugurated on May 25, 2007.
Buxheim Forest	Forest cross	1993			The cross is made of wood and has no body. In the middle of the cross there is a monogram of Christ. Another small metal cross with the image of Christ is placed on the lower stone base of the cross.
Schmiedeberg	Mural	1974			The painting on the north side of the building was created in 1974 by the painter Erich Marschner (1911–1983). It shows the history of Buxheim in a modern representation.
Wiesenstrasse 7	Mural	1966			The mural in the school in Buxheim was created in 1966 by Erich Schickling (1924–2012) and also depicts scenes from the history of Buxheim.
Ziegelstadelweg 7	symbol				The symbol of the Carthusian Order is located on a metal plate in the stepped gable of the house. It shows a cross on a globe. Above it are seven stars and below it is a banner with the Latin inscription Stat crux, dum volvitur orbis .
Westerhart	chapel	19th century	D-7-78-123-12		The chapel was probably built in the 18th or 19th century. After a fire in the neighboring property in 1924, the chapel was demolished and rebuilt identically at a new location.
Westerhart	Wayside shrine	21st century			The wayside shrine is covered with my gable roof and in the central niche contains a picture behind glass depicting the Archangel Michael. The Latin inscription VIVAT CRESCAT FLOREAT is placed below the central niche. On both sides there is an inscription panel with the following inscription: The Westerhart Chapel stood at this point in the manor from 1789 - 1927. On the other side is the inscription Built by: Martin Schwermann, Rainer Fuhrmann, Dirk Grube / Consecrated by Abbot Paulus ( Weigele) Basilica Ottobeuren on May 1, 2007 .
Westerhart	Field cross				Metal cross with body on a stone base.
Westerhart	Field cross	19th century			The cross, consisting of a metal cross with a body on a stone base, was probably erected between 1880 and 1890.
Westerhart 2/8	Field cross	1855			The cross consists of a stone base with a decorative niche, on top of which is a metal cross with a body. The stone plinth bears the inscription FJR 1855. FJR stands for Franz Josef Ruf, the owner of the farm in the 19th century.
Flößerweg 2	Home address				The inscription 1733 “Jtzt is so” 1960 is located above the courtyard gate
At the Weiherhaus	monument	1912			The monument was erected in 1912. On a bronze plate that is no longer on the memorial was the inscription Friedrich Carl Graf Waldbott von Bassenheim 1779 - 1830. On the base of the memorial is the further inscription In memory of his great-grandfather, the creator of these facilities, erected in 1912 by Ludwig Graf Waldbott von Bassenheim . The monument is in very poor condition.
Kirchenweg	Memorial stone	1992			The memorial stone commemorates German reunification and was unveiled on October 3, 1992.
Dirt road near the Iller and Aumühle	Forest cross

Web links

Commons : Buxheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) )
• Entries of floor crosses in the Bayern Viewer

literature

• Richard Dlouby: Signs of Christian piety in Buxheim with Westerhart - documentation of monuments and works of art not only of Christian content . Ed .: Heimatdienst Buxheim eV 2014.
• Tilmann Breuer : Bavarian art monuments - city ​​and district of Memmingen . Bayerischer Kunstverlag Munich, Munich 1959.
• Inscriptions and information on the landmarks themselves

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Tilmann Breuer, Heinrich Kreisel and Adam Horn (eds.): City and district of Memmingen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, p. 93.

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