Romberg Way of the Cross

If you walk up from the cemetery you can get through well despite the wind break. The path is only closed in the area of the fallen tree.The path shows in 12 "stations" the suffering of Jesus up to the crucifixion.

A Way of the Cross was built after the Second World War. Its 12th cross is an old stone cross from 1776, which stands between two votive stones of the 14 emergency helpers from 1754. The Way of the Cross begins at the wayside cross, leads past the Joseph Chapel to a brick house of saints. The Stations of the Cross 1 to 10 follow in a short distance. These consist of wooden columns with a carved motif on the head side. The oak pillars were carved by Johannes Belz in 1949. The Way of the Cross leads in the form of a mirror-inverted "S" to a place where stations 11 to 14 form a semicircle. The entire facility is under monument protection.
Source: Wikipedia

According to local tradition, the south-eastern spur of the Romberg has always been a place visited for cult purposes. In place of a Germanic sanctuary, a first cross is said to have risen here as early as 745. However, only one chapel has been handed down with certainty, which was built in connection with the pleadings to Romberg founded by Kloster Retters in the plague year of 1348. The resulting procession of the Holy Cross on Whit Monday was an integral part of religious customs for centuries (until 1667 and again from the early 19th century to the present day). After the Swedes destroyed it in 1631, Pastor Kraft erected a wooden cross, on the side of which Rector Johann Eschborn had two votive stones placed in 1754 on behalf of his father-in-law Georg Burckharth. The foundation was set up as a thank you for the fact that a number of people involved in removing logs from the Romberg were spared a fatal accident when Ursula Kreiner called the 14 emergency helpers. The identically designed stones (the one on the left renewed) each consist of a rectangular base with an inscription field, on the mirror of which a group of seven fervently pleading helpers is depicted. In 1776 Georg Kreiner and his wife Katarina had a marble cross erected instead of the wooden one "in honor of the bitter leadership and death of Jesus Christ". Since 1853, the cross has been the 12th station of the Way of the Cross donated by Katharina Kroth. Its stations were replaced in 1949 by the 13 shrines carved in oak by Johannes Belz.
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