Sebastian wayside shrine in Unterlaa

Sebastian Cross

The Sebastianbildstock , also called Sebastiankreuz , is a broad pillar next to the Donauländebahn in Vienna's 10th district of Favoriten , Unterlaa district . It stands east of the dirt road in the northern extension of the Sebastian Bridge, not far from the Red Cross . The object is entered in the digital cultural property directory of the City of Vienna ( list entry ).

Construction and history

The Sebastian wayside shrine is a four-sided pillar with a tabernacle attachment and a gable roof, which is crowned by a two-armed metal clover . In the barred niche there is a small figure of St. Sebastian , the plague saint . Under the statue there is a Maltese cross with the inscription "Saint Sebastian, please God for us!"

Under the wayside shrine is a plague grave, in which the victims of the plague epidemic of 1713 are presumably buried. At that time ten deaths from the plague were entered in the parish register. As is customary with plague deaths, they were buried outside the village and not in the local cemetery in order to avoid any contagion. The trench in which the dead were laid and which extends as far as the Liesingbach was called the "plague trench" for a long time afterwards. Today the northern part is leveled because of the railway construction.

This wayside shrine, the front of which was originally oriented towards the Oberlaa cemetery , can be seen in a watercolor by Conrad Grefe , which is in the Historical Museum of the City of Vienna . It shows the Sebastian wayside shrine as it looked in 1896.

The Sebastian Brotherhood of Oberlaa mentioned by Klaus Beitl is also related to the Sebastian wayside shrine.

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.

Web links

Parish Oberlaa, Marterln and wayside shrines (scroll to no.14)

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Beitl: Ober-Laa, a village on the outskirts of Vienna. Attempt to take stock of folklore. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde NS Vol. XXIV, Complete Series Vol. 73, Vienna 1970.

48.137396 16.4195Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '14.6 " N , 16 ° 25' 10.2" E

[1] Klaus Beitl: Ober-Laa, a village on the outskirts of Vienna. Attempt to take stock of folklore. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde NS Vol. XXIV, Complete Series Vol. 73, Vienna 1970.