Wooden cross, originally painted white (only small fragments of the white paint are still visible, giving the cross its name. However, in 1903 it was already recorded that the cross was located in the area known as “White Cross,” suggesting that there was likely a previous cross here that gave the location its name).
Date of construction: 1903
Location: Vysoká nad Kysucou, Jedľovník-White Cross, GPS: 49.3608611N, 18.5183611E
Material: wooden cross originally painted white, with a metal roof over the crossbeam featuring a serrated edge at both the front and back. Above the crossbeam, there is a metal plaque with the inscription INRI, which is now faded.
Corpus: painted on metal
Date of blessing/consecration, builder: 1903
Consecrator: Anton Zatkovič, parish priest of Vysoká
Dimensions: not measured
Description: Wooden cross, originally painted white (only small fragments of the white paint are still visible, giving the cross its name. However, in 1903 it was already recorded that the cross was located in the area known as “White Cross,” suggesting that there was likely a previous cross here that gave the location its name). Above the crossbeam featuring a serrated edge at both the front and back, is a metal plaque with the inscription INRI, now faded and almost illegible. The metal roof extends below the crossbeam and is slightly bent outward from the cross at the ends.
Surroundings: The cross is situated approximately 2.5 meters to the left of the road heading from the center to the settlement of Jedľovník, behind a natural ditch, with a simple wooden plank bridge leading to the cross. The cross is fenced on three sides by wooden slats (the front side lacks a fence). Two small trees are planted on either side of the cross.
Masses or worships (for which feast, regularly/irregularly): Private only.
Literature: VELIČKA, Drahomír. Dejiny farnosti do roku 1918 (History of the Parish until 1918). In Vysoká nad Kysucou. Vysoká n. K.: Municipality of Vysoká n. K., 2014, p. 92.
Text by: Mgr. Drahomír Velička, PhD.
Photographs by: Štefan Strýček
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