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The Crossroads rattling is in the district of rattling in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).
The cross was built in 1860. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach on September 8, 2008 under No. R 089 .
location
The wayside cross is at the exit of Rasseln northwest of the road to Viersen on a small hill.
architecture
The almost 5 m high mission cross is made of white natural stone in a neo-Gothic style. A multi-tiered substructure rises above a base plate made of basalt lava, from the gable roof of which the multi-tiered base of the cross stem grows. On the stone slab recessed in the front of the substructure, the inscription can be read in Fraktur : Jesus our Redeemer. Maria our advocate. In memory of the mission in 1860. The base of the cross trunk bears the inscription:
Save your soul
In the three-pass niche above the inscription panel there is a small sculpture of the Virgin Mary with a child. A slender Latin cross with a corpus almost 100 cm in size ( Kevelaer type) and a curved inscription panel rises from the base of the cross trunk : INR I.
The object is important for human history and for cities and settlements. There is a public interest in its preservation and use for scientific, in particular artistic, architectural, local and folkloric reasons.
literature
- Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the cities and districts of Gladbach and Krefeld (= The art monuments of the Rhine province . Third volume, No. IV ). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1893 ( digitized [accessed on June 2, 2012]).
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- List of monuments of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 234.24 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. City of Mönchengladbach, July 4, 2011, accessed on June 2, 2012 .
- Käthe Limburg, Bernd Limburg: Monuments in the city of Mönchengladbach. In: on the way & at home - homepage of Käthe and Bernd Limburg. July 18, 2011, accessed February 27, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 15.1 ″ N , 6 ° 21 ′ 59 ″ E