KREUZE, ,BILDER‘ IN AUSSEN-SOMOGY
CROSSES, “IMAGES” IN OUTER SOMOGY

Summary/Abstract: The article presents 215 sacral minor monuments and small structures found in public places in the northern part of Somogy County, classified by type. Most of the wayside crosses are made of stone. The research investigated the time they were erected, their place, motivation, inscriptions and destruction. The Holy Trinity statues were made from the end of the 18th century, those of Saint Wendelin from the early 19th century. Their geographical distribution corresponds to the denominational relations in the small region. Statues of Saint John of Nepomuk date from the end of the 19th century. The research also covers the fate of the bells used in the outlying settlements (known as puszta) on the former large estates, and their highly varied belfries. Other sacral minor monuments are not found in the area studied, or only in very small numbers. The article presents in detail an unusual minor monument (fakép = ‘wooden image’). The plant ornamentations of the sacral minor monuments appear to be “more conservative” than the small private gardens.

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