Pillar of torture (Alterlangen)

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The column of torture in Alterlangen, 2012

The torture column in the Erlangen district of Alterlangen is a baroque wayside shrine . The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists them under monument number D-5-62-000-744.

Location

The torture column in Alterlangen stands in the middle of the old village center at a crossroads in front of the Alterlanger Straße 17 property.

description

A 1.4-meter-high shaft rests on a 1.5-meter-high base with a square cross-section without swelling. Above it is a volute capital and the square aedicula , in which there are four shallow niches. Painted images from the life of Jesus Christ are attached to these on copper sheet . The cube-shaped head of the column of torture is closed off by shell ornaments , a dome and a stone ball with a metal cross.

The four modern intended images of the aedicula show the following scenes:

  1. (Street side): An anachronism is woven into the " Ecce homo " representation ( John 19.5  EU ) in which Jesus Christ is tied to the age-long torture column.
  2. (East side): Awakening of Eutychus ( Acts 20,8-11  EU ).
  3. (South side): Christ at the lake ( John 21.4–9  EU ).
  4. (West side): Resurrection of Jesus Christ ( Matthew 28.3  EU ).

history

According to a description from the 1920s, the torture column was erected in 1738. In the course of time the wayside shrine was destroyed, which largely led to it being forgotten. In the first half of the 20th century, the plinth and parts of the column were rediscovered during sewer work on what was then house number 20. When an oven was demolished, the aedicula of the torture column was found in its foundation walls.

The aedicule and the base were initially set up in the rock garden of the finder Lorenz Weller at the then house number 59. After the Second World War, the remains of the now unadorned wayside shrine were put up again at the current location.

In 1988 an elderly citizen had the idea to attach new pictures to copper sheet on the torture column. The approval of the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation was obtained through the initiative of the Catholic pastor of St. Heinrich's Church and the support of the Erlangen City Archives. After an elaborate restoration of the historical wayside shrine, the copper plates, painted according to a design by I. Linskens, were used in January 1990 and the hall monument was re-erected.

Individual evidence

  1. List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) )
  3. ^ A b Hans Ferdinand Linskens: The resurrected torture column from Alterlangen . In: Heimatverein Erlangen und Umgebung e. V. (Hrsg.): Erlanger building blocks for Franconian homeland research . No. 44 , 1996, ISSN  0421-3769 , pp. 401-404 .
  4. ^ Ernst Pfister: Landmarks in the Erlangen area . In: Association for homeland security and local history (ed.): Erlanger Heimatblätter . No. 7/1924 . Erlanger Tagblatt, Erlangen 1924, p. 112 .
  5. Hermann Hornung: A forgotten torture column in Alterlangen . In: Association for homeland security and local history (ed.): Erlanger Heimatblätter . No. 16/1933 . Erlanger Tagblatt, Erlangen 1933, p. 74 .
  6. Franz Zettler: The stone cross . The land monuments of the district of Erlangen. In: Mitteilungs-Blätter of the German Stone Cross Research . No. 1/2 , 1942, p. 7 .

Web links

Commons : Pillar of Torture  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 36 ′ 6.4 ″  N , 10 ° 59 ′ 17.1 ″  E