The relief carving Descent from the Cross (Kreuzabnahmerelief an den Externsteinen) is the most interesting of the artwork at the Externsteine. It measures nearly 5 m high by 4 m wide. Current thinking dates it to around 1160 making it the oldest such large relief rock carving north of the Alps.
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