From the website Atonement Crosses & Murder Stones: "The upper part of a prayer pillar, around 1500, stands on a tombstone base. On the flat sandstone block with an inwardly curved gable roof, there is a heavily weathered relief in a shallow niche on the front. On the left and right are raised instruments of torture. The back is free.
Front: Christ on the cross. The previously existing figures of Mary and John, like Christ, are only present in small remnants. Left: lance tip with barbs, three nails to the cross, staup column, attached sponge and lance; right: stick with fork, pliers, hammer, scourge - these are the "arma" [weapons] of Christ. The pillar originally stood on the wall of the Pfeifer estate in Gorknitz near Dohna and took its name from the Ilsebach that flows past and has been dry for some time. It is said to have been rediscovered around 1880 while plowing a field near Wölkau. In 1882 it stood in the garden of the tavern at the "Lugturm" in Flur Gommern near Heidenau. A drawing by the painter Eckardt printed in 1888 shows it there. In 1953 it was knocked over by a truck and was brought to the Heidenau Museum at the instigation of the local chronicler Herbert Koitzsch. When the museum was closed in 1964, the remains of the column were brought to Dohna and placed in front of the church. In 1999, a faithful replica was erected in Heidenau."