Weather Cross (Tauberbischofsheim)

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Weather cross near Tauberbischofsheim
The weather cross near Tauberbischofsheim

The weather cross near Tauberbischofsheim

Data
place on a connecting path between Oberlauda and Hof Steinbach and Dittwar , not far from the A 81 , framed by two chestnut trees
builder A Grünsfeld sculptor
Construction year 1714
height approx. 3 m
Coordinates 49 ° 34 '54.8 "  N , 9 ° 39' 43.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 34 '54.8 "  N , 9 ° 39' 43.3"  E
particularities
The pedestal shows the local coats of arms of five adjacent old communities

The weather cross near Tauberbischofsheim in the Main-Tauber district in Baden-Württemberg is a cultural monument from 1714.

history

prehistory

The crossing of the weather cross was already in the time BC. It was used because the two Celtic highways Main-Neckar and Spessart-Hohenlohe met at this location . A sacrificial stone in the nearby "Heidenkessel" was probably of Celtic origin and part of a former cult site.

History of the weather cross

The weather cross was erected in 1714 as an "eternal memory" of major storm damage and is now shown on many hiking maps. Its pedestal formed the boundary stone to the former districts of the five old communities ( Distelhausen , Dittigheim , Dittwar , Lauda and Oberlauda ), whose coats of arms are depicted on it. After the regional reform in Baden-Württemberg , some of the neighboring old communities are only districts and Dittigheim is no longer a direct neighbor. The weather cross was created by a sculptor from Grünsfeld . In 1849 the weather cross was renovated. After one of the two chestnut trees that frame the weather cross did not survive a storm in 2011, a new chestnut tree was planted in the same place.

literature

  • Elmar Weiß: Dittigheim: An old settlement in the Taubertal . Interest group Heimatbuch Dittigheim, Tauberbischofsheim 1987, p. 247f.
  • Manfred Maninger: Chronicle of the community Dittwar. Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V., accessed on February 18, 2017 (published in 1968, made available online by Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e.V., pp. 7, 29, 31, 34, 50, 55, 59 and 64).

Web links

Commons : Wetterkreuz (Tauberbischofsheim)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
  • The weather cross on the website of the Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar at www.hkvdittwar.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elmar Weiß: Dittigheim: An old settlement in the Taubertal . Interest group Heimatbuch Dittigheim, Tauberbischofsheim 1987, p. 247f.
  2. ↑ a b c Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar eV: The weather cross . Online at www.hkvdittwar.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Heimat- und Kulturverein Dittwar e. V .: Manfred Maninger - Chronicle of the community of Dittwar, 1968 . online at www.hkvdittwar.de. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  4. ↑ Fränkische Nachrichten: 300 years of the Wetterkreuz: Star march from the neighboring communities of Oberlauda, ​​Lauda, ​​Distelhausen, Dittigheim and Dittwar as well as Heckfeld: The response exceeded all expectations . September 16, 2014. online at www.fnweb.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  5. ↑ City of Tauberbischofsheim: chestnut tree planted at the weather cross ( memento of the original from February 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.tauberbischofsheim.de. Retrieved February 18, 2017. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tauberbischofsheim.de