Crucifix, Jesus is gone: unknown people unscrew the Lord God figure from field cross in Icking - family appalled
Created: 01/10/2023, 23:00
By: Cornelia Schramm
A field cross without God: Thomas Stahn (41) and his whole family are shocked.
Someone stole the Jesus figure.
© Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
A carved Lord God has been watching over walkers and cyclists in a wooded area near Icking for 30 years.
The Stahn family once erected the field cross - and now found it completely deserted.
Icking - And suddenly the Lord God was gone.
The Stahn family from Icking in the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district is stunned: someone unscrewed the Jesus figure from their field cross and took it with them.
There is no trace of the hand-carved Son of God.
Now even the police are investigating.
Irmgard Stahn is shocked.
"I'm at a loss for words," says the 67-year-old.
"We can't understand who does something like that." The wooden field cross with roof and flower box stood here in her family's forest for almost 30 years at a fork in the road.
It was always a place to recharge your batteries.
Many walkers, cyclists and joggers passed by here.
"Everyone could pause here, think about it in peace or say a prayer," says Stahn.
"We can only speculate as to the reason for this disrespectful theft."
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Vandalism excludes the Stahn family.
The cross to which the lime wood Jesus figure was screwed is not damaged.
"It was not torn down by force.
Someone must have inspected them beforehand and then taken the right tool,” says Stahn.
"Maybe it should even be resold."
The crime must have happened between December 19 and January 8.
"During the Christmas stress, we weren't there for a long time," says Stahn.
Otherwise, her family goes for a walk here in the forest between Irschenhausen and the A 95 almost every Sunday.
Decorating the wayside shrine has a long tradition.
Pansies, palm bushes or a bouquet of flowers you have picked bring life to the shady crossing.
Now the field cross is deserted except for a few branches.
During his tour on Sunday, Stahn's husband Hans-Peter noticed the ungodly shrine.
Together with son Thomas, daughter Anna and grandson, the 70-year-old searched the entire area.
But the figure was not lying in the bushes and was not covered with leaves.
(By the way: everything from the region is now also available in our regular Wolfratshausen-Geretsried newsletter.)
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In the meantime, the police in Wolfratshausen are also investigating and are looking for witnesses.
"Something like this is really very rare," says a spokeswoman and admits: "We also wonder what the perpetrator or perpetrators want to do with the Jesus figure now."
The police estimate the damage at 400 euros.
For the Stahn family, the sixty-centimetre, carved figure of Jesus meant much more than that. There has always been a shrine in their forest.
A cast-iron god used to hang on it.
Hans-Peter Stahn and his wife Irmgard renovated it when they took over their farm in Irschenhausen in the early 1990s.
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With roof, flowers and goodness gracious: This is how the field cross stood in a forest near Icking for almost 30 years.
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“We bought the figure in South Tyrol and had it consecrated by a priest here in the forest,” Irmgard Stahn remembers.
After that, the family and friends had a big party.
Since that autumn day, the field cross has brought luck to the new generation on the Schmotz farm.
Memories are attached to the Lord, whose light lime wood had already turned gray over the decades.
"We are so sorry that he is gone," says Stahn.
“We want to ask a few walkers if they saw anything.
But if we don't get him back, we're already at odds as to what we should do.” Hans-Peter Stahn definitely wants to endow the orphaned shrine with a Lord God again.
Irmgard Stahn, however, shies away from it.
"Then he'll be gone again."
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