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Wayside Cross with Bench
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JakobusPilger
October 23, 2021
Hiking
“Each of these crosses can tell its own story and what prompted people to erect “their” cross at this point. (...) These wayside crosses were erected as visible signs and …
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Harald Schramm (Schocker)
September 10, 2023
Cycling
A shrine (from Old German stock/stoc, 'something projecting into the air', in Hesse as Heiligenstock, in Austria and Bavaria also as Marterl or Marter, Materle, Materla, Wegstok or Kreuz, in Switzerland as Helgenstöckli, is a small religious monument a pillar made of wood or stone, usually on a path, which carries a sculptural or painted votive or devotional image (usually the image of a saint, a scene with saints or the crucified Christ).
Source and further information
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildstock
Source and further information
de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildstock
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