Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle (Blieskastel)

The chapel was built as a place of veneration for a relic of the True Cross, but today it is closely related to the 14th century Pietà "Our Lady with the Arrows".

[2][3] The patrons for the chapel's construction were the barons Carl Caspar and Damian Adolph von der Leyen, who had moved their residence from Blieskastel to Koblenz a few years earlier.

Long before the arrival of the “Arrow Madonna” from the Gräfinthal monastery, the Holy Cross Chapel was a regionally important pilgrimage site.

The priest and royal visitator Carl Desiderius de Royer, reorganizer of Catholic life in the Duchy of Palatine Zweibrücken, published a booklet on this pilgrimage in 1692.

The Catholic Cross Chapel Association, a recognized non-profit founded in December 2007, is responsible for maintaining the building's condition.