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Immenhausen

The stone cross on Knickhagenweg (atonement cross)

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Immenhausen

The stone cross on Knickhagenweg (atonement cross)

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Location: Immenhausen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

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2. Termenei Heathland – Tauber's Eck loop from Knickhagen

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3. Gerhard Holten Hut loop from Knickhagen

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Franzl wandert 🥾

November 24, 2022

The atonement cross is very old and reminds of a crime from that time.

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Wandertourist

March 24, 2022

Atonement crosses like this were erected up until the 16th century. If someone was killed by force of arms, the perpetrator was sentenced by the church to set up an atonement cross at the place of his crime.

However, the exact origin of this expiatory cross is unclear.

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Claudia & Panama 🥾🐶

January 29, 2024

To this day, the clear origins of these enhancing evidence remain a mystery to research.

But it is certain that such crosses were erected until the Reformation in the 16th century. If a man was killed with a weapon, the church condemned the perpetrator to place an atonement stone at the site of the murder. Together with the delivery of a certain amount of wax and money to the church, the sign of atonement was able to protect him from the usual blood feud by the relatives of the person killed. It can be assumed that this stone cross also indicates such an event. However, there is no written information about the exact meaning and year of erection of this cross-shaped stone

Steins

none whatsoever

Origins of these

stone

Evidence for research remains enigmatic.

But it is clear that until the Reformation in the 16th century.

century

such crosses

has set up.

If a person was killed with weapons, the church condemned the perpetrator to place an atonement stone at the site of the murder.

Steins

none whatsoever

Origins of these

stone

Evidence for research remains enigmatic.

But it is clear that until the Reformation in the 16th century.

century

such crosses

has set up.

If a person was killed with weapons, the church condemned the perpetrator to place an atonement stone at the site of the murder.

Together with the delivery of wax and money to the church, the sign of atonement was able to protect him from the usual blood feud by the relatives of the person killed.

It can therefore be assumed that it is likely that this stone cross also indicates such an event. However, there are written references to the exact meaning and year of its erection in the shape of a cross.

The total height is 176 cm, of which 97 cm protrude from the ground. Its width is 30 cm, thickness is 25 cm.

The arm pointing northwest is

28 cm, the after

The southeast-facing one is 19 cm long.

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Location: Immenhausen, Landkreis Kassel, Kassel District, Regierungsbezirk Kassel, Hesse, Germany

The stone cross on Knickhagenweg (atonement cross)

1. Tauber's Eck – Termenei Heathland loop from Holzhausen

2. Termenei Heathland – Tauber's Eck loop from Knickhagen

3. Gerhard Holten Hut loop from Knickhagen

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