Thanksgiving stella

Thanksgiving Stella

The Thanksgiving stone is a vestige of Leopold von Wedel, known as the traveler. It was put up at the end of the 16th century by him as thanks for a happy pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The stone was placed at a fork in the road, where the distance from the old Wedel castle is the same as from the gates of Jerusalem to Golgotha. It is a slab of Gotland limestone 1.75 meters high topped by a circle 1.05 meters in diameter. On the face is an engraved image of the Crucified Christ, and above it is a banderole with the INRI inscription. Below the inscription in German "biddet dot vor alle cristen selen" which means "I ask God before Almighty Christ glorifying him".

Leopold von Wedel called. The "Traveler" was born siew 1544, he was the son of Konrad (1507-1552) von Wedel of Krępcewo and Przywodz, an educated man, for he studied in ltaly. Leopold made his first trip in 1566, at which time he visited Hungary. Then, in 1575, he went to France for the first time for the Huguenot war. In 1577, he went on his longest trip. He visited Egypt, the Apennines and England. Upon his return, he decided to expedition to the Holy Land. He then fought in 1583-84 in Germany, in 1591 in another Huguenot war in France, in 1592-93 in the Cologne War and in the battles in Strasbourg.