"This mighty stone cross [made of sandstone] with a corpus was purchased and erected by the municipality of Alfter. This can be seen from a dedication inscription on the back. (...) The ensemble was purchased on the occasion of the inauguration of this cemetery and initially erected at the higher burial ground. It has probably been at its current location since the cemetery was expanded before the Second World War."
(Source: H.D. Flamme in "Wegekreuze im Gemeindegebiet Alfter. Sacrale Kleindenkmäler als Zeichen der Volksfrömmigkeit", Alfter 2014)

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"... the reason is that cemetery crosses are usually not memorial crosses either, although they commemorate death and certainly also the salvation of the soul of the dead, but (individual) …

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