Wanlo crossroads

Wayside cross

The Crossroads Wanlo is in the district Wanlo in Mönchengladbach ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ) on dirt road Wanlo- Borschemich .

The cross was built in 1766. It was entered under No. D 013 on August 18, 1994 in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach .

location

The wayside cross stands southeast of Wanlo on the border of the corridors 'In der Roßkuhl' and 'Hinter der Windmühle' at an intersection of the field path leading from Wanlo to Borschemich.

architecture

The shaft cross with corpus stands on a structured base. Substructure with an almost square cross-section, leading over a profiled cantilever plate to place a monstrance in the middle part with a round arched niche ( cone ), which shows a shell ornament in the dome and a winged utten head above it. Canopy with carnies , above a base plate with a bulge as a base for the shaft cross.

The inscription reads:

CHRISTO DABANT / D JOES HENRICVS / LENDERS / & / ANNA CATHARINA / SPECHT CONIUGES / AO 1766

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Mönchengladbach

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 ( digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3D~IA%3Ddiekunstdenkmle00clemgoog~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D~doppelseiten%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D [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 . 
• Andrea Caspers: Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach. (PDF; 227.14 kB) In: moenchengladbach.de. April 24, 2012. Retrieved September 23, 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

1. ↑ 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 ° 5 ′ 25.7 "  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 49.5"  E