Mission Cross Giesenkirchen
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The mission cross Giesenkirchen stands at Vikarienweg in the district Giesenkirchen in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).
The cross was built in 1863. It was entered under No. V 030 on July 28, 2009 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .
architecture
On the Vikarienweg, on the southwest side of the Catholic. Parish church St. Gereon , directly on Konstantinplatz in the district of Giesenkirchen, there is a slim, high missionary cross , a stepped substructure rises above the foundation. A vertical rectangular and recessed field in the middle part for the inscription is highlighted by a frame :
"Save your soul. Mission 1863"
Above this are tapered roofs that lead to the base of the cross stem. The cross has strong beams, bevelled at the ends, and has a three-dimensional stone corpus and a plaque above it: " INRI ".
The object is important for human history. There is a public interest in its preservation and use for reasons of local history and folklore. The property is worth protecting as a monument.
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
swell
- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 16.6 ″ N , 6 ° 29 ′ 25 ″ E