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<div>In Poland many of them are small crosses without any text or description<br></div><div dir="auto">so it is not entirely obvious why they were placed (though you can guess <br></div><div dir="auto">quite reliably).<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 11, 2023, 14:31 by annekadistel@web.de:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><p>I would think that they are still memorials, if they commemorate
an accident or suicide.<br></p><p>I'm not aware of terribly many use cases for man_made=cross,
maybe at open air church service locations or along stations of
the cross.<br></p><p>Food for thought, anyway.<br></p><p>Anne<br></p><div class="">On 11/06/2023 10:29, Mateusz Konieczny
via Tagging wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>I typically tagged such crosses as man_made=cross<br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">historic=memorial memorial=cross man_made=cross ?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Jun 11, 2023, 02:27 by <a href="mailto:annekadistel@web.de" class="" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">annekadistel@web.de</a>:<br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;" class="tutanota_quote"><div>A historic=wayside_cross does not mark the spot; it is not
left in a<br></div><div>location where someone is buried or died. It is a way to
make sure the<br></div><div>soul of the deceased gets into heaven easier by having
passers by pray<br></div><div>for the soul. You don't have to believe in it, but that's
what people<br></div><div>believed back then (and maybe some still do).<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">note that it is not the only reason for placing
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