Atonement Cross Martinskirchen

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Atonement Cross Martinskirchen

The atonement cross of Martinskirchen is located west of the Martinskirchen cemetery , a district of the small town of Mühlberg / Elbe in southern Brandenburg in the Elbe-Elster district . Today it is registered as an official ground monument.

Description and history

This atonement cross is made of gray sandstone and has a size of 146 × 98 × 24 cm. The cross was probably erected as an atonement for murder or manslaughter.

Its original location was possibly near Brottewitz , where there is also a stone cross and a second, which was originally there, is considered lost. The stone cross is said to have served as a pedestrian bridge over the border ditch towards Brottewitz for a while and was later buried. In 1934 it came to its present location near the Martinskirchen village church

Further stone crosses in the urban area of ​​Mühlberg are in Altenau and Brottewitz . Originally there was also a stone cross on Liebenwerdaer Straße in Mühlberg. This is said to have been lost during paving work on the road that passed the monastery wall.

legend

A legend reports that the Martinskirchen Atonement Cross was supposed to have been erected shortly after the Thirty Years' War . According to legend, a farmer from Altbelgern, who was considered missing, was killed by a relative on his return at the Grenzgraben who had accepted the abandoned farm and was now afraid of having to give it back to the farmer. As the murderer had a guilty conscience, he fled soon after his bloody act and was never seen again. According to another version, he is said to have drowned himself in the nearby Elbe .

Trivia

Immediately behind the atonement cross is a pedunculate oak . This is now a natural monument and is also under protection. In the ordinance on the establishment of trees as natural monuments in the Elbe-Elster district of June 21, 2011, the district specifies the protection purpose: regional history, individuality, beauty .

literature

  • Dietrich Neuber : Stone crosses and cross stones: Inventory of the Cottbus district , Cottbus, 1982
  • The legend of the Martinskirchener Kreuzstein . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde (Ed.): Legends from the Elbe-Elster-Land . Bad Liebenwerda 2015.

Web links

Commons : Sühnekreuz Martinskirchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Elbe-Elster district (PDF; 875 kB)
  2. ↑ a b Georg A. Kuhlins: "The stone crosses of the Bad Liebenwerda district" in "The Black Elster - Our home in words and pictures" . No. 579 . Bad Liebenwerda 1980, p. 4-9 .
  3. ^ The Martinskirchen Atonement Cross from www.suehnekreuz.de
  4. ↑ The legend of the Martinskirchener Kreuzstein . In: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde (Ed.): Legends from the Elbe-Elster-Land . Bad Liebenwerda 2015.
  5. ↑ The Martinskirchener Steinkreuz on the private homepage www.maegel-net.de, accessed on September 13, 2017
  6. ↑ Ordinance on the establishment of trees as natural monuments in the Elbe-Elster district of June 21, 2011. accessed on January 29, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′  N , 13 ° 12 ′  E