Jesus fällt zum dritten Mal unter dem Kreuze

The ninth station of the Stations of the Cross to the Käppele shows Jesus falling beneath the cross for the third time. You meet it on the climb in Germany, where both the path and the story turn toward their end.

This is the hardest of the three falls, the moment when strength seems exhausted for good. Taken together, the three collapses form a rising sequence that once accompanied pilgrims on their way. Whoever arrives here at the end of their own strength finds themselves in the image. With the next stations the events on Golgotha itself begin: the stripping of the garments, and on to the burial.

From here, the two journeys run in parallel. Each further station brings the execution site nearer in the story, and each step brings the goal nearer to you. The fall comes just short of the end, where the last strength goes and only the arrival remains.