Steinkreuz bei Worzeldorf (1)
Steinkreuz bei Worzeldorf stands in Nuremberg, Bavaria, as a weathered sandstone cross from around 1500. The stone measures about 110 centimetres high, 90 centimetres wide and 30 centimetres deep. Its form belongs to the tradition of Sühnekreuze, crosses associated with atonement for a crime.
Two crosses originally stood here, with the second added during the sixteenth century. Local lore connects that later cross with officers buried during the Thirty Years’ War. Road construction in the nineteenth century moved them about 50 metres northwest, where damage led to their remaining pieces being joined.
Engravings mark the eastern face, possibly showing a ploughshare, while the older upper cross lacks its right arm. A fracture below the crossbeam separates the upper section from an engraved lower part apparently taken from the younger cross.
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