Fraubillen Cross

The Fraubillen cross (German: Fraubillenkreuz) is a menhir, which has been resculpted into a cross [1]. It stands by a wayside on the Ferschweiler Plateau in the Eifel mountains in Germany, between Ferschweiler, Schankweiler, Nusbaum-Rohrbach and Bollendorf [1]. According to tradition, the celebrated missionary in the Eifel region, Willibrord refashioned the roughly 5,000-year-old menhir by hand into the shape of a cross as a Christian monument [1]. Two niches for figures have been chiselled into the rock, each surrounded by holes [1]. Today, the cross is about 3.5 metres high [1].