Olfen picture
The so-called Olfener Bild (also simplified Olfer Bild ) is a simple late Gothic wayside shrine made of sandstone in the Odenwald near Olfen , today a district of Oberzent in the Odenwaldkreis in Hesse . It dates from the pre-Reformation period, is a registered cultural monument of the Hessian State Monuments Office with the object number 10813 and is located on the Nibelungensteig .
location
The wayside shrine stands on a ridge of the Spessartskopf east of the northern end of the valley of Olfen, through which the Finkenbach flows, and south of the Rotes Wasser upland moor on today's circular hiking trail Drachenweg at a crossroads of the district road 47.
description
The wayside shrine is carved from one piece with a base and top. The top is worked as a pentagonal niche in the shape of a house, emphasizing the shape of the roof. It thus belongs to a series of wayside shrines in the Odenwald and on Bergstrasse that are worked in this form, for example the red picture at Michelbuch , the Bullauer picture , the Eulbacher picture , the Mossau picture in Ober-Mossau , the monolithic wayside shrine in Reichelsheimer District Ober-Easter or the remnants of a wayside shrine in Gammelsbach . The Olfen wayside shrine is unusually high; it measures almost three meters.
With its dating, the monument is one of the oldest wayside shrines in the Odenwald and is assigned to the beginning of the 16th century. It is no longer possible to prove what was depicted in the wayside shrine; the pointed gable, simple picture house is empty today. The plug-in end in a broad square base plate above ground almost 2.30 m measured house image Stock has a stepped at the bottom of the shaft and is in the center part to the two front edges chamfered . The house with a deep picture niche and a steep roof with a notched roof edge is damaged on the right front side on the roof and wall by tees. In contrast to other wayside shrines in the Odenwald area, neither a year, a coat of arms nor an inscription is visible. Only a previously hewn form can be assumed in the image area.
Several wayside shrines standing in the Odenwald could be an example of which picture or figure could have been in the picture niche:
The red picture from 1524 with a simple figure of Mary from later times from the southwestern Odenwald
A wayside shrine from 1732 with a prayer figure from a later period from the southern staghorn
The similar-looking but considerably smaller Walldürn picture stick from the northern Upper Easter , today also empty and decorated with a crucifix
A much younger Walldürnbildstock (1852) east of Kirschhausen with a blood count
The unusually large wayside shrine is registered as Hessian cultural monument number 10813 (see list of cultural monuments in Olfen ). An information board on Museumsstrasse Odenwald-Bergstrasse is next to the wayside shrine, which is separated from the hiking trail and has a bench at the crossroads .
history
Since the Waldhufendorf Olfen, first mentioned in 1398 as a fiefdom of the Electoral Palatinate to the House of Erbach , part of the County of Erbach and this was finally evangelical by Count Eberhard XIV by 1540 at the latest , the wayside shrine must be a lot older.
The wayside shrine is about half the way that the Olfen residents had to cover to their former mother church in Güttersbach . It stands on the boundary between Olfen and Güttersbach. The Olfener image probably served as a resting-place of collection and the after Schöllenbach or Walldürn pilgrimage Catholic pilgrims .
The wayside shrine was also associated with legends about witches and druids . Mößinger, however, sees this as an unsustainable assumption that has only recently arisen. Only at the wayside shrine near Ünglert near Wildenburg in the eastern Odenwald, which has a dug foot carved under the niche as "protection against witches or fiends ", is such a thing actually verifiable.
In 1838 the “dangerous subject” Jean Baptist Rieger is said to have escaped from his prisoner transport during a break.
literature
- Friedrich Mößinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , extended special print from “Die Starkenburg”, sheets for local history and home care, booklets 28 and 29, Heppenheim 1962, p. 35
- Hans Teubner, Sonja Bonin: Cultural monuments in Hesse , monument topography of the Odenwald district, 1998, p. 154
- Fritz Schäfer: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , in: Geschichtsblätter Kreis Bergstraße , special volume 20, Verlag Laurissa, Lorsch 1999, p. 56 f.
Web links
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Hrsg.): 'Bildstock Olfen' In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hessen
- Olfen / OT from Beerfelden on www.suehnekreuz.de
- "Olfener Bild" wayside shrine at www.outdooractive.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the Drachenweg from Mossautal-Hüttenthal to the Siegfriedbrunnen on www.wanderbaren-deutschland.de ; accessed on May 25, 2020
- ^ Mößinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 23
- ↑ Gammelsbach / OT von Beerfelden on www.suehnekreuz.de ; accessed on May 26, 2020
- ^ Mößinger: wayside shrines in the Odenwald , p. 35
- ↑ Peter Weber: From the history of the city and county of Erbach , Volume 2, published by the Historical Association for the district town and former county of Erbach, Erbach 1989, p. 56
- ↑ Olfen / OT von Beerfelden on www.suehnekreuz.de ; accessed on May 25, 2020
- ↑ Thomas Wilken: On the trail of a “very dangerous subject” , Neckartal Nachrichten (published: April 8, 2020); accessed on May 25, 2020
Coordinates: 49 ° 36 '19.7 " N , 8 ° 53' 44.4" E