Heinz straub, a master carpenter from stralsbach, sometimes thinks long and hard before he says anything at all. We are standing in stralsbach's mountain church st. Oswald and look at the new cross that was placed there a few weeks ago in the church annex on the side of the altar and high above it in front of a dark wooden wall. Straub made the crucifix.

"It was a long story, says the 66-year-old. When asked about this story, heinz straub was silent at first. Finally he decides to answer the question. "In 1994, on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the stralsbach parish, there was the idea for the first time to install a cross in the modern church extension. Now it is done. We have the cross."