Wall Crucifix Made of Gilded Damascus Steel

General Information
A Settlement on a Mountain: Königsmünster Abbey in Meschede.
According to an old Latin verse, the Cistercians preferred valleys, the Benedictines mountains, the Franciscans small towns, and the Jesuits large towns for their monasteries: “Bernhardus valles, montes Benedictus amabat, / oppida Franciscus, magnas Ignatius urbes”. The Benedictines of the Königsmünster Abbey have certainly kept to this, for their monastery towers high above Meschede, town in the mountainous Sauerland region. From a bird’s eye view, you’ll easily spot that the monastery’s buildings build up a small town on their own: in the foreground the grammar school and some of the monastery buildings, flanked by the House of Silence and the “Oasis”, further back the workshops with a smithy and carpentry plus the agricultural buildings – all this embedded in a park-like garden.
Product Information
Article Number 79216
Damascus steel is made by forging two different steels in countless paper-thin layers. The result is a feast for the eye with its typical "water", characterized by distinctive patterns of banding and mottling reminiscent of flowing water. The classical crucifix shape is skillful forged in steel in the smithy in the Königsmünster Abbey in Meschede.
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