© Photo: Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH./Robert Maybach: Enjoy the view in Upper Austria

Photo: Oberösterreich Tourismus GmbH./Robert Maybach: Enjoy the view in Upper Austria

Enjoy the view in Upper Austria

Bichl Weather Cross

St. Lorenz am Mondsee, Oberösterreich, Österreich

Weather crosses were set up in areas that were often hit by heavy storms. On Ascension Day (Corpus Christi) they are often decorated. They stand for the prayers of the landowners for prosperous weather.

As Friedrich Wistauder was able to report, the cross used to stand with the neighbor, the fisherman. In the Nazi period it had to be dismantled and lay in a barn. After the war a new place was found for it, at first near the present place until it could finally be set up on the current location after several restoration works.
Permission was granted on 26 April 1940 to consecrate the "Field Cross" to the farmer Radauer of St. Lawrence. Michael and Maria Radauer were the owners of the estate at that time. 1)

In 1990, KMB Mondsee took the initiative for the renewal of the Weather Cross, commissioned painter Schneeweiß to restore the figures and actively helped to restore the Weather Cross. Another restoration was due in 2016. Again painter Schneeweiß -this time already his son -took over the work.

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Bichl Weather Cross

Achenstraße 6
5310 St. Lorenz am Mondsee

+43 6232 4166
info@ortedesglaubens.at

https://www.ortedesglaubens.at/mondsee

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Pfarre Mondsee
Kirchengasse 1
5310 Mondsee am Mondsee

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