Wayside shrine on the "Roman Road"
Between the ruins of Wildenstein Castle and the area called “Raven’s Nest” (Rabennest) in upper Kaltenbach, where the so-called “Trail of Pictures” (Bilderweg) to Mount Katrin begins
Between the ruins of Wildenstein Castle and the area called “Raven’s Nest” (Rabennest) in upper Kaltenbach, where the so-called “Trail of Pictures” (Bilderweg) to Mount Katrin begins
The wayside shrine commemorates Josef Rehrl, a retired woodcutter from Ahorn, who died from a live wire in 1933; a tree that he felled tore away the power line.
The old picture of Jesus knocking on the door, an allusion to sudden death, was recently replaced by a picture of Rehrl’s patron saint, St. Joseph.
The wayside shrine is a simple but neatly executed tabernacle made of artificial stone, with an inscription on a marble tablet embedded in its shaft.