Steinkreuz in Stadeln
Steinkreuz in Stadeln stands on Theodor-Heuss-Straße, within Fürth’s Stadeln district, as a surviving field monument. The cross is made of weathered, moss-covered sandstone.
It rises about one metre, reaches forty-six centimetres at its widest point, and measures thirty-five centimetres deep. Its exact meaning remains unknown, and its original purpose has several possible explanations.
The monument is believed to date from the sixteenth century and may mark an accident or a murder’s atonement. Such crosses once formed part of private agreements involving the perpetrator, the victim’s family, compensation, and penance.
The Halsgerichtsordnung of 1532 ended that medieval legal practice under Emperor Charles V. Stadeln once had other stone crosses, a resting stone, and a wayside shrine, but this sandstone cross remains.
It once stood beside Stadelner Kiefer, a registered natural monument felled in 2013 after more than two centuries. Fürth’s wider stone-cross tradition continues at Würzburger Straße and in Poppenreuth.
Legends and stories surround these crosses, connecting the Stadeln monument with regional cultural history.
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