Skinny hen
The wayside shrine Magere Henne , also known as Hendlkreuz , is a listed statue at Laaer-Berg-Straße 100, on the ridge of the Laaer Berg , in the 10th Viennese district of Favoriten , part of the Oberlaa district . The original column was erected in 1548 as a boundary stone by Max Beck from Leopoldsdorf . The reliefs on the top of the tabernacle are badly weathered.
Legend and reality
Although the occasion, the time of construction and the function are well documented, the local field name "Magere Henn" has given rise to a legend with the Turkish motif, which is not exactly rare in the Vienna area. According to this, during the First Turkish Siege of Vienna (1529), the leader of a crowd of Turks camped there would have shot the chicken that had just been served to him from the plate. In another version, his skull was shot off while he was eating chicken.
A more recent story is also told from the Napoleonic period of 1809. Back then, the peasants would have put a very skinny hen in front of Napoleon for a rest in the village.
The reed name itself is more likely to indicate the poor quality of the soil there, which was valuable for brick production due to its high clay content, but less so than arable land. A document from the Altenburg Abbey from the 16th century reads:
- Grundtackher bey laaerweg against Magerhenn ...
literature
- Emil Schneeweis: On the religious folklore of the southern outskirts of Vienna: The wayside shrines, crosses and pillars of the Oberlaa and Unterlaa as well as Rothneusiedl. in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Volume XXV , self-published by the Verein für Volkskunde, Vienna 1971, p. 310 [1] .
- Werner Schubert: Favorites. Verlag Bezirksmuseum Favoriten, 1992.
- Maria Kinz: Livable favorites , J&V Edition Wien, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85058-083-0 , pp. 24-26.
- Felix Czeike (Ed.): Henne, Zur meager. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 3, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-218-00545-0 , p. 142 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Skinny hen in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 9 ′ 46.7 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 31.4" E