Bélai Iván [et al.]: Köztéri alkotások

VI. Utószó

corpus also has been stolen from the cross. It must have been made of bronze. 168. In the widest street of Szentgyörgymező (the former Öreg Street, today Hunyadi Street) Mihály Nagy landowner erected a stone cross 1783. Later it was surrounded with an iron fence. In April 1997 Béla Könözsi and Béla Kondár concreted the fundament and renewed and repainted the iron fence. The Corpus Christi Day procession came this way, and the third »scene« of the procession (tent of leaves) was at this place. 169. Mihály Nagy erected a wooden cross onto a rock looking at the Danube, on Long Hill in 1784. He wanted to thank God that the epidemic had avoided his family. That is why the cross is also known as the »Epidemic Cross« or »Fever Cross«. The original wooden cross was seriously harmed by the weather conditions and it was replaced by a huge iron cross, ordered from Vienna by Primate Card. Simor. It was consacrated on 3 May 1871. By 1906 the rock had became dangerous because of the stone mining. The cross was put into a safer place and the dangerous rock was destroyed according to the proposal of a geologist expert. Every year in May a procession went up to the cross. By the time the people reached the top they had so much got into a sweat that they all caught a chill in the wind and had become feverish by the following day. This is where the name of the place comes from: »Hideglelőskereszt«, in English it means »The Cross where You catch a chill«. 170. In 1785 a wooden cross was erected by Kilian Haller near the former Déda Inn. The old wood was broken in a windstorm. Haller at the same time also established a foundation, so in 1895 the original harmed cross could have been replaced with a new one, but it was placed in Almavirág Street, opposite the Déda Isle. The neighbour landowner renewed the cross when he surrounded his land with fence, and placed the cross beside the road. 171. In 1785 the from the generosity of the vineyard workers a wooden cross was erected on Forehill (Előhegy). They also established a foundation so that the cross was taken care off. The cross later was replaced with a stone cross. 172. Beside the Eagle's Hill, under the Vaskapu a wooden cross made by the miller Mátyás Hoffbauer was erected in 1785. He also established a foundation so that the cross was taken care off. In 1898 the old cross was replaced with a new one, which also was renewed a few years ago by bovscouts. The so-called »Double bass Christ« received ics name from the fact that the metal plate corpus sound like a double bass in the strong wind.