--- title: Hascherl wayside cross Tiefgraben Mondsee Salzkammergut url: "https://www.upperaustria.com/en/oesterreich-poi/detail/430022035/hascherl-wayside-cross.html" description: Due to a tragic death of a newborn, the Hascherl-Marterl was built in Tiefgraben am Mondsee in the Salzkammergut. date: 2017-02-22 modified: 2026-03-18 --- # Hascherl wayside cross Tiefgraben Mondsee Salzkammergut Hascherl wayside cross ======================== Zell am Moos am Irrsee, Oberösterreich, Österreich ![](https://assets.tourdata.at/260x195/220156/42B8245C3083AEA12460B00844D335EF1A107286CBBC00B0127A6EB2C9E94548/hascherl-marterl.jpg) © Open copyright © Matthias Winkler Close copyright [ ![View of a wooden wayside cross, in the front a vase with flowers, in the background a forest](https://assets.tourdata.at/x550/220156/42B8245C3083AEA12460B00844D335EF1A107286CBBC00B0127A6EB2C9E94548/hascherl-marterl.jpg "© Matthias Winkler") ](https://assets.tourdata.at/1920x/220156/42B8245C3083AEA12460B00844D335EF1A107286CBBC00B0127A6EB2C9E94548/hascherl-marterl.jpg) Tannenweg 4893 Zell am Moos am Irrsee [ open in Google Maps ](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Tannenweg%2C%204893%20Zell%20am%20Moos%20am%20Irrsee "Link will open in a new window") [ Open in Apple Maps ](https://maps.apple.com/place?address=Tannenweg%2C%204893%20Zell%20am%20Moos%20am%20Irrsee "Link will open in a new window") ![](https://static.ecmaps.de/staticmap.jpg?experience=webarchitektur-meta&lat=47.904965218577679&lon=13.354053497314453&width=991&height=450&project=ttg-basemap&zoom=2000&server=meta.tourdata.at) On September 18, 1994, a relative of August Meindl brought water for the livestock from the stream and found here in the afternoon the newborn, who had been stabbed 6 times. The child was buried at the cemetery in Zell am Moos. When August Meindl heard about it, he was so affected by the fate of the child that he created the boy, who was only allowed to live so briefly, a Marterl and set it up on December 10, 1994. In the Marterl was first a picture, painted by Hilda Nußbaumer. It represented a woman stabbing a child. The inscription read: As a boy I was born and was already hurt. A knife and the deadly wounds - Had I been put down, a mother would have found me. Born and murdered on September 18, 1994 The picture disappeared soon. August Meindl wrote the following text and put it in the Marterl. As a little boy I came to this world. You do not want me. 18. 9. 1994 I ask for a Lord's Prayer. Once again there was a change. The text - initially in Kurrentschrift - is now engraved in an easily readable form. [ Contact ](#ttgCollapseKontakt) ---------------------------------- **Hascherl wayside cross** Tannenweg 4893 Zell am Moos am Irrsee Phone [ +43 6232 4166 ](tel:+4362324166) E-Mail [info@ortedesglaubens.at](#mailto) Web [www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee](https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee "New window") https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee --- **Contact person** Pfarre Mondsee Kirchengasse 1 5310 Mondsee am Mondsee --- **We speak the following languages** German [ Arrival ](#ttgCollapseAnreise) ---------------------------------- [ Accessibility ](#ttgCollapseBarrierefreiheit) ------------------------------------------------- Please get in touch for more information. [To the website](https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee "New window") powered by [TOURDATA](https://www.tourdata.at "New window") [ ![TOURDATA Logo](https://www.upperaustria.com/fileadmin/templates/global/images/Logo-Tourdata.png "TOURDATA Logo") ](https://www.tourdata.at "New window")