Poppenbecker Cross

Poppenbeck Cross

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According to tradition (inscription!), The cross is at the point where the knight Swer von Bevern is said to have died in 1487 on his way back from a Turkish campaign within sight of his residence, Haus Havixbeck.He had been badly wounded during the fighting alongside the emperor, had prayed for victory for the Christians and implored God to be allowed to see his homeland again.
Around 1450 he had become lord of Haus Havixbeck through his marriage to Crissella von Schonebeck.
In 1601, Haus Havixbeck came into the possession of the von Twickel family when Ermgard von Bevern brought it as a dowry to the marriage with Rudolph von Twickel. The von Twickel family, who still own the house, are responsible for the preservation of the cross to this day.In contrast to many other land monuments, the Poppenbeck Cross has survived the turmoil of the Anabaptist movement, the wars of religion and the iconoclasm in its more than five hundred year history, as it was accepted as a place of worship as a cross without a corpus by all denominations.The Poppenbeck Cross is registered as a monument in Havixbeck's list of monuments.de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppenbecker_Kreuz