Spinnerin am Kreuz, Gothic wayside shrine in Favoriten district, Vienna, Austria.

Spinnerin am Kreuz is a 16-metre sandstone tabernacle pillar on an octagonal, cross-shaped plan, standing on the Wienerberg in Favoriten. Its open tower-like upper section is framed by slender piers with pinnacles and pointed arches; in the niches stand carved figures, a central one holding a child, with a lamb on a book above. The originals are now in the Favoriten district museum, replaced on site by copies.

A wooden cross at this site is documented in Vienna's 1296 town law as "ain stainern kreucz ob meurling". The present sandstone pillar was rebuilt in 1452 by St. Stephen's Cathedral master builder Hans Puchsbaum with Laurenz Spenning, after János Hunyadi's troops destroyed the earlier structure in 1446. Turkish troops damaged it in 1529 and 1683; Paul Kölbl renewed it in 1598, and it was renovated in 1624 and 1709/10.

The name comes from a legend: a merchant's wife sat spinning wool by a wooden cross here every day, waiting for her husband to return from a crusade. She vowed to fund a column with her earnings, and when he finally came back the couple endowed the stone tower in gratitude. The name "Spinnerin" is documented only from 1709.

The shrine is located in the Favoriten district in front of George Washington Hof on Triesterstrasse 52, easily accessible by public transport. The site is freely open to visitors and can be viewed anytime without admission fees.

The original carved figures were replaced by copies because of acid-rain damage; the originals are now kept in the Favoriten district museum. The sandstone dissolves into gypsum crusts of soot and tyre particles from the adjacent Triester Straße.