White Torture (Büchenbach)

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The White Torture, 2012
The field cross next to the White Torture, 2012

The White Martyr in the Erlangen district of Büchenbach is a historical wayside shrine . The Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation lists them, together with the floor cross next to it , under monument number D-5-62-000-815.

Location

The wayside shrine and the field cross are located in the northwest of the Erlangen district of Büchenbach on Mönaustraße , opposite the junction into the street An der Weißen Marter .

description

The White Torture was made from gray and medium- coarse Rhätsandstein. The aedicula is located above the base and shaft with flat, square niches and a roof-shaped end with a ball attachment and an iron cross. The base bears the dates 1830 and 1909. However, these do not allow a reliable statement about the age of the wayside shrine, as it can also be restoration dates.

The wooden field cross next to the wayside shrine was created in 1953 by the sculptor and graphic artist Lothar Strauch (1907–1991).

history

The White Torture got its name because it is said to have been painted white during the Büchenbach parish fair. Nothing is known about the period and the reason for the erection of the wayside shrine. According to a legend , two peasant women got into an argument here and prepared themselves with a sickle in such a way that they died. In the 1890s a forest assistant from Kosbach was found shot here .

The ensemble of Marter and Feldkreuz, which used to be located away from the historic village center, is now in the middle of the new Erlangen-West development area. The original environment of the place was permanently changed by the development. In the years 2001 to 2003, several wayside shrines were renovated on the initiative of the Erlangen Local History and History Association (Kosbach Working Group) and the Kosbacher Stad'l Association, including the White Marter.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Adam Stupp: Strauch, Lothar .
  • Other sources
  1. ↑ List of monuments for Erlangen (PDF) at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
  2. ↑ Bavarian Monument Atlas (cartographic representation of the Bavarian architectural and ground monuments by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation (BLfD) )
  3. ↑ The white torture on historical torture in Kosbach, Büchenbach and Reichswald
  4. ↑ a b Manuela Herbert: At the White Torture . Post 118 on the website Do you know Erlangen?
  5. ↑ Franz Zettler: The stone cross . The land monuments of the district of Erlangen. In: Mitteilungs-Blätter of the German Stone Cross Research . No. 1/2 , 1942, p. 10 .
  6. ↑ Peter Düthorn: Polstermarter ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erlangen-virtuell.myfen.de 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. . Entry 549 on the website Do you know Erlangen?

Web links

Commons : White Torture  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 35 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 10 ° 56 ′ 53.1 ″  E