Stone cross Lauchhammer-Mitte

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Stone Cross Lauchhammer-Mitte (2012)

The stone cross of Lauchhammer-Mitte , sometimes also referred to as the Bockwitzer Steinkreuz , is located west of the former village green of Lauchhammer-Mitte , formerly Bockwitz , a district of the southern Brandenburg town of Lauchhammer in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . Today it is part of the official archaeological monument with the number 80289.

Description and attempts to interpret the past

This atonement cross is made of granite and has a size of 96 × 75 × 20 cm.

There are various traditional legends and interpretations of the cross. An essay by the author Helmut Rambusch, published in 1937 in the local history series Die Schwarze Elster , reproduces the following:

According to the first version, a Swedish general is said to have died here during the Thirty Years' War . This stone cross was finally erected in his memory. However, since there is no inscription on the cross and the Swedish troops severely devastated the place at that time, Rambusch already strongly doubted that this was a memorial stone.

In an old Bockwitz chronicle in 1790, the opinion was again held that the Bockwitz cross stone was a kind of border marker. It was also associated with the crossroads that are common in other regions . Likewise, the indulgence preacher Johann Tetzel (around 1460–1519) was suspected of having had such stones set up on his march through the Lausitz. And in the end it was also considered possible that the stone placed at the entrance to the village at that time should banish the Black Death .

Presumably it is an old place of jurisdiction together with the nearby Gallowsberg and the cross was very likely erected as atonement for murder or manslaughter .

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The Mückenberger stone cross

Another stone cross in the urban area of ​​Lauchhammer was originally located at the entrance to the former town of Mückenberg, today Lauchhammer-West. Rambusch reported in 1937 that it should have stood there until a few years ago . There is evidence that the stump of the cross in front of the entrance area of ​​the former estate was still preserved until at least 1929.

There is also a legend about this cross. It is said to have been erected during a plague epidemic. After the city was inundated by a flood from the nearby Black Elster , it was ravaged by the Black Death . And when he had demanded many victims in Mückenberg, an old wise woman commanded that the pestilence could only be averted if two pure children would pull a furrow around the place with a harrow. The two chosen children achieved the impossible. Buried deep in the earth, the harrow finally came to a standstill.

The wise woman who had demanded this inhuman task, however, turned out to be a witch. In the end she was dead. At the point where the harrow finally came to a standstill, this stone cross was placed on it.

  • Mückenberg around 1717

literature

  • Dietrich Neuber : Stone crosses and cross stones: Inventory of the Cottbus district , Cottbus, 1982
  • Helmut Rambusch: The Bockwitz stone cross . In: The Black Magpie . No. 536 , 1937 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  • Franz Behrend: The stone cross and the pestilence in Mückenberg . In: The Black Magpie . No. 336 , 1927 (story in the local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).

Web links

Commons : Steinkreuz Lauchhammer-Mitte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District Oberspreewald-Lausitz (PDF; 875 kB)
  2. ^ The atonement cross of Lauchhammer-Mitte at www.suehnekreuz.de , accessed on November 18, 2017
  3. ↑ a b c d Helmut Rambusch: The Bockwitz stone cross . In: The Black Magpie . No. 536 , 1937 (local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  4. ^ The atonement cross of Lauchhammer-West at www.suehnekreuz.de , accessed on November 18, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c Franz Behrend: The stone cross and the pestilence in Mückenberg . In: The Black Magpie . No. 336 , 1927 (story in the local history supplement to the Liebenwerdaer Kreisblatt ).
  6. ↑ Luise Grundmann, Dietrich Hanspach (author): Der Schraden. A regional study in the Elsterwerda, Lauchhammer, Hirschfeld and Ortrand area . Ed .: Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig and the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-412-10900-2 , pp. 153 .
  7. ↑ The year 1945 appears in the book Der Schraden, published by Böhlau-Verlag in 2005 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 13 ° 45'  E