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Memorial and atonement cross on the Old Trade Route

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Memorial and atonement cross on the Old Trade Route

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Memorial and atonement cross on the Old Trade Route

Name: Memorial and atonement cross on the Old Trade Route
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Location: Auengrund, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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RadlerUnterland🚵‍♂️

May 24, 2025

This area memorial is an atonement cross. Atonement crosses are field monuments, or area memorials, because in the past they were erected at places where someone unexpectedly died. These crosses were intended to assist the dead in purgatory and to call passersby to prayer. Thus, they are not simply stone crosses, but also a testament to a particular legal and religious conception in the Middle Ages. The detailed history can be read on the information board.

The area memorial formerly consisted of the cross and a large, conspicuous tree that was still there at the time.

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Harald

July 25, 2020

The natural monument is the trees on the Eisfeld - Crock road

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JakobusPilger

May 31, 2025

In the strictest sense of the word, "commemorative crosses" must be distinguished from "atonement crosses," the latter of which were to be erected by the perpetrators as part of their atonement (penance) for their crime. In some regions, the term "murder memorial cross" is occasionally encountered.
Memorial crosses, on the other hand, were usually erected by people (often family members, possibly friends or neighbors) close to the deceased—not just for victims of crime.

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Location: Auengrund, Hildburghausen, Thuringia, Germany

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Memorial and atonement cross on the Old Trade Route

1. Werra Pond – Werra Spring Fehrenbach loop from Schleusingen

2. Rock Cellar on Kirchberg – Schloss Eisfeld loop from Sachsenbrunn

3. Werra Spring Fehrenbach – Werra Pond loop from Oberrod

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