Wehrmeisterkreuz
The Wehrmeisterkreuz is located in Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The wayside cross is at the confluence of Rütger-von-Scheven-Strasse and Aachener Strasse on a house wall.
The wayside cross is made of sandstone and stands on a base with an inscription. and coat of arms of the donors . It has a baroque body.
The Wehrmeisterkreuz was donated in 1664 by the couple "Theodorus, Theodor-Dietrich, Leers and Anna Richmudis von Berchem". The Wehrmeisterkreuz bears the year 1664 and the marriage coat of arms of Wehrmeister Leers. Theodor Leers was among other things from 1653 to 1690 military master of the Duke of Jülich in the forest administration district of Düren and also mayor of Düren in 1678 , at that time written as Lersch . Below the marriage coat of arms is the inscription; "CRVX - Christians Worships the Savior, He has risen gloriously". The same Leers gave a large silver bowl to the Church of St. Anne in 1690. On the rim he had engraved: "Theodorus Leers, duranae urbis quondam consul, praetor nec non silvarum praefectus 1690 ".
So Leers used to be councilor, mayor and military officer. Wehrmeister means something like head of the forests and corresponds to today's forester . His official area was the Wehrmeisterei and his place of residence was Düren.
The cross was also a cross on the wooden path from Gey to Düren at the time. The former location of the Wehrmeisterkeuz is not the current one. The Wehrmeisterkreuz formerly stood in the middle of today's intersection of August-Klotz-Strasse / Aachener Strasse and Stürtzstrasse and was moved to the above-mentioned house around 1898. The timber that was felled from the Wehrmeistereiwald zu Gey was led from Gey via Straß over the Boisdorfer Holzweg to the Rur and from there over the Nippes at the Altmühle or Neumühl (today Kanzan) across the Holzweg (Rütger-von -Scheven-Straße) to the Holzmarkt ( Altenteich ). The military cross from that time was hardly damaged in the air raid on November 16, 1944 and was restored in 2002 by the company Thomas Lehmkuhl from Münster .
The building is registered under No. 1/061 in the list of monuments of the city of Düren.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dürener People's Newspaper of October 1, 1898
- ^ Website of the Lehmkuhl company
- ^ Herbert Pawliczek: Directory of monuments of the city of Düren 1984. In: Dürener Geschichtsblätter. No. 76, Düren 1987, ISSN 0416-4180
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 55.7 " N , 6 ° 25 ′ 40.4" E