Rauenberger wayside shrine

The Rauenberger wayside shrine is a wayside shrine near Rauenberg in the Rhein-Neckar district in northern Baden-Württemberg . Much older than the church of St. Peter and Paul , which was renovated in 1907/10, the wayside shrine , built in 1698, is the oldest Christian cultural monument in the Rauenberg area. The original is now in the winegrowers' museum; a true-to-original copy was placed at the old installation site.

history

The wayside shrine was first mentioned in a document in 1743, in a list of all the existing chapels and crosses in Rauenberg created by Kapellan Marcellianus on behalf of the absent pastor for the diocese of Speyer . In addition to a St. Anna Chapel (now replaced by a new building) and the St. Michaels Chapel (demolished in 1953 when the road was built), the installation from 1753 still leads to three stone crosses in the vineyard up on the young wedge , in the middle of the village at the herschaftl. Zehntscheuer and down in the village by the brook on the stone bridge , also three wooden crosses that are no longer detectable and finally the wayside shrine up in the village on the Way of the Cross . Conrat Bender is named as the donor of the wayside shrine.

In the 19th century the wayside shrine was moved from its old location to a path in the vineyards outside the village. In the 1960s, as part of the land consolidation , the road network was also renewed, so that the wayside shrine has stood across the path ever since. The surrounding him was Won in the reclassification of the tub after the land consolidation Bildstöckel called.

After a restoration by the local sculptor Karl Steidel in the late 20th century, the Bildstöckel the winemaker Museum Rauenberg was suitable, where it is kept protected from the weather, while in the vineyards of the Won at the previous location Bildstöckel a true copy was drawn up.

description

On a base stone and a column that is stronger in the lower part, there is a shield-shaped stone, decorated with artistic relief work, which is closed at the top by a clover-leaf cross . In the center of the vaulted stone above is a depiction of the crucified, flanked on the left by the praying Mary and on the right by the praying John. At the foot of the cross there are skulls and bones, while angel heads with wings are visible below the flanking figures. The crucifixion scene is flanked on the left and right by grooved pillars that rest on scrollwork and upwards carry the final crown arch with the clover-leaf cross.

In the lower area of ​​the relief stone is an inscription, surrounded by scrollwork , which names the founder and the year 1698: KONRAT BINTER GOT ZU ER 1698 . The inscription on the head of the cross reads INRA . Further inscriptions can be found in the trefoil cross and in the crown arch. The inscriptions have various peculiarities. The N always has a backslash, the U is shown as U and V, some letters are drawn together to form ligatures. The letters C, G and E are designed almost the same and only differ in the number of smears. A T is always used instead of the D. The inscription in the trefoil cross reads OB AUCH EN IHM WI ME SCHMZ , the inscription on the top of the head reads O IER ALE TIE TEN WEG FURIBE GEH MECK E TOCK UNT SEH . The inscription certainly refers to Jeremiah 1:12 ( I tell you all who pass by: Look and see whether any pain is like my pain ) and means, first read on the crown of the head and then continued on the clover-leaf cross, something like Oh you everyone who walks by the way, notice and see whether in him too like my pain .

literature

• Hans-Dietrich Henschel: The Rauenberger wayside shrine from 1698. In: Kraichgau. Contributions to landscape and local research. Episode 16, 1999, pp. 365-368.

Coordinates: 49 ° 15 ′ 57.3 "  N , 8 ° 42 ′ 23.9"  E