White Cross in Oberlaa
The White Cross is a statue in the 10th Viennese district of Favoriten , Oberlaa district . It is on the corner of Oberlaaer Straße 122 and Grundäckergasse 55. The object is entered in the digital cultural property directory of the City of Vienna ( list entry) .
Construction and legend
The White Cross is a square stone pillar that carries a Mater Dolorosa sculpture above a cornice . For a long time a stone white cross with a body stood on the base. This cross is said to have been erected by the people of Oberlaa when the town was repopulated after the second Turkish siege of Vienna .
It is no longer possible to determine exactly when the cross was replaced by the statue.
The local history of Oberlaa reports:
- “When the procession moved from the parish church towards Rothneusiedl at the time of the Bittage in Oberlaa, in the eventful year 1809, the people of Oberlaa were faced with an unfamiliar picture: as far as the eye could see, the French invasion army came in all blue. The school youth, having no idea of the great event, prayed the litany; she was mocked by the soldiers, and the commander leading this troop allowed himself to be seduced into cutting the stone image of the painful mother with the saber. The procession came to a swift end.
- After the battle of Aspern on Whitsunday, May 21, 1809, exactly this officer was brought to Oberlaa with his right hand shot down. He was cared for by the business owner Josef Stöger and in the parsonage, but died the next day after repenting for his act. " (Slightly shortened)
It is not certain whether this is a legend.
The statue was actually damaged in 1809 and rebuilt in 1816 by the local judge Josef Kindl. Overturned and broken in an act of vandalism in 1887, the local council had the cross restored in the same year. On the occasion of a renovation in 1984, the Mother of God was placed on the pedestal instead of the cross. The original, the White Cross, is now in the Favoriten District Museum .
literature
- Werner Schubert : Favorites. Verlag Bezirksmuseum Favoriten , 1992; Pp. 172-174.
Web links
- Parish Oberlaa, Marterln and wayside shrines (scroll to No. 3, both the statue of the Virgin Mary and the white cross are shown here)
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '22.3 " N , 16 ° 23' 32.3" E