Video: "The Fähncheskreuz at Mainz-Kastel and Mainz-home cooking" of "ancient" on Youtube
http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=x0j6AcvI4bA
Description of the video clip.
was in 1697 at the dirt track Steigweg built on an ancient crossroads a stone wayside cross that one out for a metal weathervane known as "Fähncheskreuz" The large base of this cross dates only from 1783 and was the mayor and Country Zoeller Franz Kaltenbach and his wife Gertrud built. 1862 was Nicholas Krimmel by master stonemason Adam Frisch, the "Fähncheskreuz" . Refurbish Beginning in July 1895 we hid under the cross, the upper half of a Roman grave stone from the late 1st Century AD This stone grave of a soldier with a Latin inscription probably dates from the Roman burial ground of "Castellum Mattiacorum", today's Mainz-Kastel. The stone was the "Fähncheskreuz" transported and used probably to its foundations. Renovated in 1926 the cost-Heimer Bauer Fähncheskreuz the club. End of 1981 was the "Kostheim Folk Society" the Cross again provided with a flag after the old one was gone. Later they found the old weather vane again. It is in "museum fare home" kept. In 2008, the "Fähncheskreuz" and restored the corresponding resting place.
