Red Cross (Votive Cross Oberlaa)

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Red Cross

The Red Cross is a votive cross in Vienna's 10th  district of Favoriten , on the border of the districts of Oberlaa and Unterlaa . It stands at a passage of the Donauländebahn on a field path in the northern extension of the Sebastian Bridge over the Liesingbach . On the south side of the embankment there is the Sebastian wayside shrine . The object is entered in the digital cultural property directory of the City of Vienna ( list entry ).

Construction and history

The Red Cross is a simple red painted wooden cross with two narrow boards over the crossbeam and a tin lamp housing. The white cast iron figure of Christ comes from the last renovation in 2012. There used to be a painted sheet metal figure on the cross.

As is so often the case in Austria, a “Red Cross” was erected at a site of the accident where blood had flowed. According to tradition, the Oberlaa farmer Leopold Knabl rammed his pitchfork into his body when he fell from a wagon . Since he survived the accident, he had the cross erected in gratitude.

Legend has it that a thief saw off the cross and dragged it away, but injured himself on a rusty nail and died of blood poisoning.

Folk custom

Every year on April 25th, the St. Mark's procession takes place, during which people pray for a good wine harvest. This procession leads from the Oberlaa parish church via An der Kuhtrift to the Schmerber Cross , on to the Red Cross, to the Pietà Chapel and back to the parish church in Oberlaa.

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. 309 (picture), p. 318 (text). [1] .
  • Werner Schubert : Favorites. Verlag Bezirksmuseum Favoriten , 1992; P. 175.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inauguration of the renovated Red Cross
  2. ↑ An der Kuhtrift = street name in Favoriten, named since June 9, 1987 after the field name of this area at the time, on the southwest edge of today's Oberlaa spa park
  3. ^ Schubert: Favorites. P. 34

Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 19.4 ″  N , 16 ° 24 ′ 52.4 ″  E