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Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site, Einhaus

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Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site, Einhaus

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Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site, Einhaus

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Location: Einhaus, Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

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Gerhard & die Hundeboygroup 🐾 👣 🐾

October 10, 2018

Unfortunately a little bit damaged, but it is already over 550 years at the mercy of the forces of nature!

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JR56

March 2, 2019

Ansverus (also Ansuerus, German Answer) (* 1038 in Schleswig / Haithabu, † 15 July 1066 at Ratzeburg) was a Benedictine monk. He is worshiped in the Catholic Church as a saint.
Ansverus came from a distinguished and wealthy Saxon family and was raised in the Christian faith. As a 15-year-old, he traveled to a dream under a pretext in the belonging to Abodritenreich Ratzeburg, there to enter the Benedictine monastery of St. George on the mountain. In the monastery he became a priest and monk with a serious orientation to the Benedictine rule and strong missionary commitment, which brought some success. The Polaben, which had been founded around Ratzeburg for about 300 years, worshiped the goddess Siwa on nearby Ratzeburg Island. In the summer of 1066, the Abodrites rose against their Christian ruler Gottschalk. Church and monastery were partially destroyed. On July 15, the Abbot Ansverus was captured with his 18 monks, taken to Einhaus near Ratzeburg and killed there on the Rinsberg by stoning. So he died at the age of 28 years as a martyr.
Ansverus was buried first in the ruins of the church of St. George on the mountain. In 1170 his bones were transferred to the recently completed Ratzeburg Cathedral.
Since the middle of the 15th century, at the presumed place of stoning at Einhaus in memory of a wheel cross from Gotland limestone, the Ansveruskreuz. Since 1950 there is a pilgrimage of the Catholic Church on the second Sunday of September.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansverus

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Elevation 80 m

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Ansverus Cross Pilgrimage Site, Einhaus

1. View of Ratzeburger See – Ratzeburger See loop from Ratzeburg

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