Römerstein

Many of the "steles" the Atlas lists in the Czech Republic and Austria are wayside monuments, such as stone shrines, chapels and crosses beside paths and roads, and not ancient steles at all. A wayside shrine is a religious image, usually in some sort of small shelter, placed by a road or path, sometimes in a settlement or at a crossroads, but often on an empty stretch of country road or at the top of a hill. A wayside cross is a cross by a footpath, track or road, at an intersection, along the edge of a field or in a forest, and may be of wood, stone or metal. Further down this page, About this kind of monument gives the whole of “Wayside crosses and shrines of Central Europe”.

This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.