St. Wendelin statue (Bad Kissingen)

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St. Wendelin statue.
The Wendelinusstein , the predecessor of the St. Wendelin statue.

The St. Wendelin statue in the Bavarian health resort Bad Kissingen ( Bad Kissingen district , Lower Franconia ) was made by sculptor Valentin Weidner and is located in the Am Wendelini area . It belongs to the Bad Kissingen architectural monuments and is registered under the number D-6-72-114-123 in the Bavarian list of monuments .

history

Before the establishment of the current St. Wendelin statue was located on the site Wendelinus on the Bad Kissinger Osterberg near the station Mountain a 1755 erected to St. Wendelin dedicated memorial stone with the inscription "Holy Wendelin pray for the city and community" , which was originally located at a cattle market at the intersection of Kapellenstrasse and Wendelinusstrasse and was later moved to Bad Kissinger Ignatius-Taschner-Strasse.

Today's St. Wendelin statue was made by the sculptor Valentin Weidner and was erected near today's cemetery on June 7th, 1883 , with reports from the local Saale newspaper . According to the newspaper, "primarily the members of the local cattle insurance association and other friends of agriculture" contributed to the cost of the construction .

In 1981 the St. Wendelin statue was renovated and moved 40 meters to its current location.

After the statue's original shovel was stolen, the statue was given a new shovel at the suggestion of the district administrator Werner Eberth, which is now more difficult to remove.

literature

  • Elisabeth Keller: Die Flurdenkmale im Landkreis Bad Kissingen , Volume 1, self-published by the Landkreis Bad Kissingen, 1978, p. 62f.
  • Werner Eberth : Valentin Weidner. In: “Kissinger Hefte”, Volume 1, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1992, pp. 54f.
  • Werner Eberth: Valentin and Hans Weidner (1848–1919), (1875–1953). Sculptors of Historicism in Franconia , additions to "Kissinger Heft" Volume 1, supplement to the exhibition: "The Bad Kissinger Sculptor Valentin Weidner" 1992, Theresienbrunnen-Verlag, Bad Kissingen 1996, p. 41
  • Denis André Chevalley, Stefan Gerlach: City of Bad Kissingen (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume VI.75 / 2 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-87490-577-2 , p. 110 f .

Web links

Commons : St. Wendelin Statue (Bad Kissingen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Wendelinus-Stein (Ignatius-Taschner-Straße)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 12 ′ 5.2 ″  N , 10 ° 6 ′ 1.3 ″  E