Stone Cross (Krickelsdorf)
The stone cross of Krickelsdorf is located in the center of the village near a playground.
The cross is made from a block of chalk quartzite . The cross measures 83 cm in width and 90 cm in height. The bulbous, unworked base of the cross is half a meter in the ground. The shape is a Greek cross .
The cross originally stood 200 m further north on the way to Großschönbrunn . In the Thirty Years' War Swedish troops there to have been buried, so the cross is also Schwedenkreuz called. Nothing is known about the reason for its establishment, but it can be assumed that it is a late medieval atonement cross , for example for a manslaughter , with the establishment of which an agreement was negotiated between the parties concerned. This type of legal history was ended by the neck court order issued by Emperor Charles V in 1532 , with which the jurisdiction for a manslaughter was transferred to the jurisdiction of a court and this type of privately exercised atonement withdrew the legal basis.
literature
- Mathias Conrad: Atonement Cross in Krickelsdorf. In amberg information , March 1992, pp. 11-15.
Coordinates: 49 ° 33 ′ 39.4 ″ N , 11 ° 53 ′ 10.3 ″ E