Red Cross Berlagasse
The Red Cross is a former cemetery cross at the intersection of Berlagasse and Mühlweg in Strebersdorf in the 21st Viennese district of Floridsdorf .
history
The cross was donated by Anton Glock in 1822 as a cemetery cross for a cholera cemetery. His son-in-law Johann Hirsch renewed it in 1876 from the footbridge of a destroyed ship mill . In 1937 it was destroyed by a storm and rebuilt.
description
The Red Cross is a simple one-armed wooden cross in the type of the so-called "Tin Lord God". The sheet metal body is polychromed . The cross is colored red.
literature
- Manfred Wehdorn u. a .: Free sculpture in Vienna. 1451-1918 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-422-06781-3 , pp. 251 .
- Felix Czeike: XXI. Floridsdorf. Vol. 21 of the Vienna District Culture Guide . Vienna 1983, p. 39 .
- Gerhardt Kapner: Free sculpture in Vienna (Wiener Schriften, H. 31) . Vienna 1970, p. 95 .
- Wolfgang Westerhoff: wayside shrines in Vienna . Vienna, St. Pölten 1993, p. 154 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 17 ′ 12.3 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 21.4" E