Stone cross at the Feucht West motorway service station
The stone cross at the Feucht West motorway service station is a historic land monument at the “Nürnberg-Feucht-West” motorway service station on the A9 , in the direction of Munich . It is located in the municipality of Central Franconia community Schwarzenbruck in Nuremberg County in Bavaria .
location
The small monument is on the southern edge of the Nürnberg-Feucht-West motorway service station , next to a children's playground belonging to a fast-food restaurant .
description
The very massive stone cross in Greek shape is made of sandstone , has little signs of weathering and the dimensions 80 × 100 × 35 cm. An axially symmetrical cross is incised on the south-facing side, and some characters and letters that are difficult to read on the northern side. It has some traces of editing. Judging by its good condition, it was probably restored. It was moved during the rescheduling and construction of the service area. The cross originally stood near Nerreth , a district of the market town of Wendelstein in the Roth district , north of a path from Röthenbach near St. Wolfgang to Pyrbaum in the Grünängerlein corridor . ( 49 ° 21 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 7.92 ″ E )
history
The stone cross is probably an accident cross or atonement cross . Nothing is known about the exact time, the reason for the installation and the sayings about this cross.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Feucht (IV) at http://www.suehnekreuz.de , accessed on April 19, 2020.
- ^ Roth district: Small monuments in the Roth district. Treasures of our hallways. Field crosses, boundary stones, wayside shrines, expiation crosses and much more, Roth 2016, ISBN 978-3-9815571-3-8 , p. 229
- ↑ Report in the local press, Ernst Wurdak stone crosses announce murder and manslaughter, 2014
- ↑ Original location of the stone cross Bavaria Atlas, first recording (1808–1864), accessed on April 19, 2020
Coordinates: 49 ° 21 '18.9 " N , 11 ° 12' 8.2" E