Baroque stone crosses

Translated by Dóra Lukács

Only one baroque stone cross is listed in the monument register of Érd. The one in the register, standing on a column with scrollwork in front of 1 Kinga Street, is a cross carved of stone. Count János Illésházy erected the „White Cross of Gyorma”, also a registered relic, in 1789. The Cross in Kinga Street is only secondary to the White Cross. Originally it probably stood in Érd-Ófalu, in front of the church or near the castle, but the great, icy flood of 1838 most likely damaged it; therefore, with the building of the new town with the help of Fülöp Batthyány, it was relocated and renovated, as indicated by the engraving of the year 1843. The body was damaged during the Second World War, and it disappeared in the early 1980s.
 
Péter Módy sculptor-restorer, hired by the town leaders, renovated the baroque stone cross on the basis of old photographs in 1997. Parson Ferenc Hajdú blessed the cleansed, completed and strengthened cross. The gardening in the environment of the monument has been finished recently.
 
There was a belfry next to the cross, along with a holy picture where people stopped to pray during religious marches.
 
The “gyomrai” cross or “White Cross” can be found if we turn from Mély Road towards Százhalombatta on the accommodation road, which was renovated by the town in the year of the Millennium.
 
János Illésházy erected the White Cross when his son Ferenc died at the age of ten in 1789. Although this cross is not under protection, it carries the value of historical monuments.

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