Kreuzweg Station V

Kreuzweg Station V stands beside the Calvary Way, a hillside path linking the lower gate with the hilltop church. In Germany’s Rhineland, this route is regarded as one of the earliest of its kind. As you climb, trees and low walls frame the shrine, and the ground rises gently towards the next bend.

The fifth station belongs to a sequence of stone shrines first numbering seven and later expanded to fourteen. Its shallow niche holds sculpted figures in a relief showing Veronica offering a cloth to Christ. The design combines elements of a small roadside chapel and a simple image house. The structure consists of local tuff stone, a material often used for devotional monuments across the region.

The reorganisation of the monastery access road in 1897 moved and renumbered the stations. This station then took its present place along the new route. Local and regional initiatives renovated the ensemble from the late twentieth century onwards. Processions and quiet walks still pass its weathered stone, following the path uphill towards the next station.