Wayside cross to Johannes Junker
The wayside cross An Johannes Junker stands in Nörvenich at the confluence of the way from Hochkirchen into Zülpicher Straße .
It cannot be said whether the field name “Am Johannes Junker” was derived from the nearby, lost courtyard that belonged to the Junker Johannes von Goir. The assumption that Junkers come from Junke = rushes that grew with the grass in the damp Neffelbachwiesen is also very questionable. The grass and rushes were allowed to be grazed by the cows of the community from June 24th, the day of John the Baptist .
It is certain, however, that a cross has stood here since at least the middle of the 17th century, on which the blessing was given during the Corpus Christi procession and to which the women praying on foot came.
First the pastor Conradus Flocken (1646 to 1694) reported the following:
After the usual Corpus Christi blessing, the pastor goes with the altar servers , the church choir and the sexton to the no longer existing bridge over the mill moat, which is about 30 meters away . After performing various prayers and chants, he gives the sacramental blessing again in the direction of the lost court . Then the procession moves to the village and to the church .
This unusual act of blessing was carried out on the basis of a foundation from which the pastor obtained a Malter rye , which was supplied by an acre of land.
Not until Pastor Linzbach did not give the blessing any more soon after taking up his duties (1910) and waived this “special payment”.
The present cross was erected in 1861. It bears the inscription:
Wanderer
stop
and look at your
Redeemer
Dedicated by
Mathias Rubel
swell
- Village crosses in Nörvenich , Karl Heinz Türk 2007, published by the local history and history association of the Nörvenich community. V., self-published
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 7 " N , 6 ° 38 ′ 26.2" E