Stone cross nest
A stone cross nest , also known as a cross stone nest , is present when several stone crosses or cross stones lie next to one another at one installation site . According to Bernhard Losch (1981), these are mainly to be found in rural areas in which settlement and industry have not been densified in modern times as in the metropolitan areas, so that these cultural monuments have largely been preserved in the open air .
Emergence
The presence of a stone cross nest can have several reasons:
- On the one hand, it can actually be the original location of the crosses. According to Wilhelm Funk (1940), old illustrations, descriptions and district plans show that stone crosses were put together in groups earlier. Friedrich Mößinger (1936) cites an atonement from 1403 as an example, which calls for five crosses for five slain.
- It can be an officially designated place for setting up stone crosses. Mößinger (1936) cites an atonement treaty from Nagold from 1494, which ordered a perpetrator to erect an atonement cross at a certain point where other similar crosses were already standing.
- In some cases it can also be assumed - partly due to the partly different age of the objects in a stone cross nest - that individual stone crosses were implemented in the past or, according to Funk (1940), were only later put together at a suitable location to form such nests.
Since these facts were partly forgotten, new sagas and legends arose in which several people, depending on the number of objects, now play a role.
Known collections
The following stone cross nests or cross stone nests with at least 5 objects are known:
Map with all coordinates of known stone cross nests (with at least 5 stone crosses): OSM | WikiMap
Disappeared collections
The following once known stone cross nests or cross stone nests are considered to have disappeared:
- Speyer (Rhineland-Palatinate): A stone cross nest with over 30 stone crosses was still in the 18th century on the road from Speyer to Worms. According to an old tradition, a wedding party that came from the Spitzrainhof was attacked and killed by enemy riders. A stone cross would have been erected for each of the dead.
- Heilbronn (Baden-Württemberg): A last cross from an otherwise missing stone cross nest in the area of today's fork Paulinenstrasse / Kreuzenstrasse is still there. The Kreuzenstrasse was named after the former stone cross nest. The stone cross nest in front of the Sülmertor in Heilbronn is drawn in a marking plan from 1734.
literature
- Bernhard Losch: Atonement and Remembrance. Stone crosses in Baden-Württemberg. Theiss, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-8062-0754-2 .
- Friedrich Mößinger: Stone crosses between the Rhine, Main and Neckar. In: Archive for Hessian History and Archeology. New episode 1936.
- Wilhelm Funk: Atonement stone and memorial. In: Old German legal marks. Symbols and witnesses of German history. Berlin / Bremen 1940.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bührener Kreuzsteinnest in: Special print from the Festschrift of the Kyffhäuser-Kameradschaft Bühren, 1967, pp. 7–8.
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- ^ Bernhard Losch: Atonement and Remembrance. Stone crosses in Baden-Württemberg . Theiss, Stuttgart 1981.
- ↑ a b c Stone witnesses in the landscape - Franconian news. In: fnweb.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Cracau / OT of Magdeburg. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Reicholzheim. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Page: Badisches Sagenbuch II 638.jpg - Wikisource. In: de.wikisource.org. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Page: Badisches Sagenbuch II 639.jpg - Wikisource. In: de.wikisource.org. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b charges. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Benthe. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Domersleben. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Podhrad / Pograth. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ^ Neunstetten / OT von Herrieden. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Johann Fluhrer: The seven stone crosses in the Altmühl valley. In: The Bayernland. 13. Vol., 1902, No. 19, p. 226.
- ↑ a b Bad Mergentheim. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Bruck / OT from Erlangen. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Donnersdorf. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Stone cross legends from Lower Franconia. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Neunhof / OT of Nuremberg. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Stübach / OT von Diespeck. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .
- ^ Fritz Klotz: Stadtgeschichtliche Miszellen , Speyer local group of the Historisches Verein der Pfalz 1967, p. 17 f.
- ↑ Heilbronn. In: suehnekreuz.de. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .