Spinner on the Cross (Wiener Neustadt)

Spinner on the Cross (2010)

As a spinner on the cross one is Gothic stone column in Wiener Neustadt referred. The column was built according to designs by the builder Michael (called Michael Knab ). There is also a column in Vienna called Spinner on the Cross .

General

Spinner at night 2

The 21 m high column, which tapers sharply towards the top, was donated by the Wiener Neustädter city judge and later mayor Wolfhart von Schwarzensee , erected between 1382 and 1384 and restored in 1994.

The column has a five-zone structure. Above the base (with a restoration inscription and the donor's coat of arms of the Ödenburg town clerk Konrad Ernst from 1475) rise three figure zones, above which the spire rises. On the first level at the angles there are three statues of saints with passion scenes in the background. Pinnacles lead over to the second zone, which is equipped with prophetic figures. In the third zone there is another plinth with the portrait busts of the founder and the artist with their respective wives. On this there are apostles and above a coronation of Mary.

The Walther von der Vogelweide Park was created around the column in 1900 .

Historical sandstone objects from the last third of the 14th century, a bust of a prophet, a headless female statue, a crab, and mythical animals can be found in the Wiener Neustadt City Museum .

Spinner at night

Similar pillars

The Tutz column in Klosterneuburg (also by Michael Knab), the so-called Hochkreuz in Friesdorf , the Hochkreuz in Frauenwüllersheim , the sermon column and the path column at the Jakobstor , which is one of the monuments in the Fürst , have a certain similarity to the spinner on the cross -Anselm-Allee in Regensburg , as well as the Zderad Column in Brno .

literature

• Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 , Wiener Neustadt, parks, Walther-von-der-Vogelweide-Park, Spinnerin am Kreuz, p. 2679.

Web links

Commons : Spinner on the Cross  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Info page of the Wiener Neustädter Monument Protection Association ( Memento from September 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) - description, photos and location information

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gertrud Buttlar : City Museum Wiener Neustadt. Catalog, merbod-Verlag Wiener Neustadt 1995, ISBN 3-900844-39-9 , catalog p. 137ff.

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 46.7 ″  E