Red Cross on Bisamberg
The Red Cross is a plague cross at the intersection of Am Bisamberg and Krottenhofstrasse in Stammersdorf in Vienna's 21st district of Floridsdorf .
history
The object was originally a plague cross and is set up at a typical crossroads.
description
The Red Cross is a simple one-armed wooden cross in the type of the so-called "Tin Lord God" over a cast stone base. The sheet metal body is polychromed . Above it is a tin roof with a small, serrated edge. At the foot of the cross is a more recent flower box.
literature
- Manfred Wehdorn u. a .: Free sculpture in Vienna. 1451-1918 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06781-3 , pp. 250 .
- Felix Czeike: XXI. Floridsdorf. Vol. 21 of the Vienna District Culture Guide . Vienna 1983, p. 33 .
- Gerhardt Kapner: Free sculpture in Vienna (Wiener Schriften, H. 31) . Vienna 1970, p. 124 .
- Wolfgang Westerhoff: wayside shrines in Vienna . Vienna, St. Pölten 1993, p. 155 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 0.7 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 43.7" E