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19th century Latgalian Catholic wayside shrine at The Ethnographic Open-Air Museum of Latvia. A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or pathway, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often in the middle of an empty stretch of country road, or at the top of a hill or mountain.
On walking maps, wayside crosses and shrines are displayed in order to aid orientation. On many crosses there is an inscription which may indicate why the cross was erected and by whom. In some regions wayside crosses are mostly made of wood (e. g. in the Alps). They vary in size from small, inconspicuous crosses to great crosses hewn from ...
English: Wayside shrine near Hornerstraße 152, Gars am Kamp, Lower Austria. Inside a crucifix of the 18th century. Inside a crucifix of the 18th century. This media shows the protected monument with the number 73170 in Austria.
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2nd Altar – Galgenkreuz (lit. "gallows cross", small religious monument that resembles a wayside cross or wayside shrine; similar in meaning to a conciliation cross, though more specifically relating to an execution site) at the street to Ettishofen in the parish of Heilig Geist, Weingarten
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