!!!Spinnerin am Kreuz

Spinnerin am Kreuz, name of two different Gothic column-like stone 
monuments in Vienna and Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria): 1) situated 
in the 10%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, legendary old landmark on 
Wienerberg hill, erected in 1375 according to plans by Meister Michael 
Knab, destroyed in 1446, re-erected in a new design using the old 
foundations by H. Puchsbaum in 1451/52 (?), tall and elaborately 
structured tabernacle pillar on an octagonal cross-shaped floor plan 
decorated with pinnacles and baldachins, groups of figures in the 
baldachins (The Crucifixion, The Scourging Of Christ, Christ Crowned 
With Thorns, Ecce Homo); the site was also used as a place of 
execution until 1747 and 1804-1868; restored several times; 2) 
situated in Wiener Neustadt, erected by Meister M. Knab outside of the 
town (in front of the Wiener Tor gate), 1382-1384, 21 m high, 
composed of four tapering elements, richly ornamented with figures, 
among them statues of saints, reliefs depicting scenes of the Passion 
of Christ, coats of arms and relief busts of the founder, the master 
builder and their wives.

!Literature
R. K. Donin, Meister M. Knab, in: idem, Zur 
Kunstgeschichte Oesterreichs, 1951; F. Dahm and M. Koller, Die Wiener 
Spinnerin am Kreuz, 1991.


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