Schwedenkreuz (Dillingen)

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The Schwedenkreuz (as Bodinetskreuz or Pestkreuz called) from 1771 stands on the Hill Place on the east side of the church of St. John in the Saarland Dillingen .

history

Swedish Cross

The cross is also called the Bodinets Cross because it used to be attached to the gable of the Bodinet house at the corner of Schulstrasse and Merziger Strasse, about seventy meters north of the current location. After Philipp Schmitt , the Bodinet house is named after Jakob Bodinet , who fought as a gunner under Marshal Davoust in Hamburg, Wagram , Leipzig and Eylau , was captured near Hanau and was able to flee to Strasbourg.

Original location at the Bodinet house

The year 1771 inscribed in the baroque cross cannot be assigned to either the Swedish War (1623–1629) or the Swedish War (1630–1635) . There is also no record of a plague epidemic from this period. Accordingly, the origin of the cross remains hidden in the darkness of popular tradition. In the meantime, the cross gable of the former rectory, which later became the Johanneshof restaurant, stood. Today it stands on the facade of the St. Johann Church, built in 1845 .

literature

Lehnert, Aloys: History of the city of Dillingen / Saar . Dillingen 1968, p. 174.630 .

Web links

Commons : Schwedenkreuz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sub-monument list of the Saarlouis district from 28-09-2011 (PDF; 347 kB)
  2. ↑ Lehnert-Aloys in saarland-biografien ( Memento from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '2 "  N , 6 ° 43' 37.9"  E