European Peace Cross

Standing just 20 metres from the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, this strange monument by Austrian artist Helmut Strobl is devoted to Edith Stein. Wrocław’s cross is a copy of the original cross which the artist took with him on a pilgrimage through seven towns connected with Edith Stein before erecting it in Innsbruck for some reason. Looking half like a wooden cross and half like an iron maiden torture device, the monument features an inscription from Psalm 31 in Polish, German and Hebrew.