Altenstadt in Wissembourg

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a prominent 'lip' on the upper basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: horizontal and vertical framing the sides of the basin -- notice the repair work on the stone

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

design element - patterns - tracery - window tracery - trefoiled

Scene Description: on the sides of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of basin - interior

showing the central drain and the wooden frame that holds up the metall inner well insert in use now to hold the holy water for baptisms

Scene Description: showing the central drain and the wooden frame that holds up the metall inner well insert in use now to hold the holy water for baptisms

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - tomb

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altenstadt_StUlrich07.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Source caption: "In der Mitte eines befestigten Friedhofs steht die romanische Kirche aus dem 11. und 12. Jahrhundert, einer der ältesten Sakralbauten des Elsass."

Scene Description: Source caption: "In der Mitte eines befestigten Friedhofs steht die romanische Kirche aus dem 11. und 12. Jahrhundert, einer der ältesten Sakralbauten des Elsass."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 May 2014 by Geak [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wissembourg-altenstadt-st-ulrich.jpg?uselang=fr] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - tower - south view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altenstadt_StUlrich08.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altenstadt_StUlrich13.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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view of cover

showing the staples secured to the back wall and the pivot that allows the cover to swing left and right -- the inner well insert is also visible here

Scene Description: showing the staples secured to the back wall and the pivot that allows the cover to swing left and right -- the inner well insert is also visible here

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of cover

Scene Description: the 'boxy' wooden cover with the locking hasp

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the east end, by the north side of the chancel arch [not its original location]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altenstadt_StUlrich30.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 9 August 2002 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: a late [18thC?] wall-mounted stoup in this church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2010 by Rh-67 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altenstadt_StUlrich33.JPG?uselang=fr] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03572ALT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Ulrich d'Altenstadt / Kirche St. Ulrich in Altenstadt

Church Patron Saints: St. Ulrich of Augsburg [aka Odalricus, Uodalric]

Church Location: rue Principale, Altenstadt, 67160 Wissembourg, France

Country Name: France

Location: Bas-Rhin, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Altenstadt, in Alsace, is just E of Wissembourg, 65-70 km N of Strasbourg, either directly up the D263 through Haguenau, or via the eastern highway to near Lauterbourg to catch the D3 directly to Altenstadt

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg

Historical Region: Rhénanie-Palatinat / Rheinland-Pfalz, Alsace

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, by the N side of the chancel arch

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: 11thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00085244]

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed by Corblet (1881-1882) simply as a 15th century font. Listed and illustrated in Palissy [ref.: IM67011636]: "Fonts baptismaux de style gothique tardif comportant un socle carré, un pied à 8 pans concaves avec un motif fleuronné (en creux) sur un des pans et une cuve octogonale ornée de remplages trilobés. Le couvercle en bois est orné de cartouches entourés de rocailles [...] Fonts baptismaux [grès] datant probablement de la 1ère moitié du 16e siècle. Le couvercle de style Louis XV date sans doute du 2e ou 3e quart du 18e siècle. Il était peut-être couronné par un petit dôme ou un Baptême. La partie inférieure de la cuve a disparu après 1837." On-site notes: the font consists of an octagonal basin with a pronounced lip moulding at the upper rim, the tapering sides framed by horizontal and vertical piping, and decorated with trefoiled window tracery on the panels; on an octagonal-to-square pedestal base decorated with mouldings at the centre ring and on the square lower base; the font, like much of the church itself, is made of the characteristic pink sandstone of the Vosges. Octagonal wooden cover of the 'pill-box' type, with locking hasp; modern. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 11th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.0305, 7.9683

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 1′ 49.8″ N, 7° 58′ 5.88″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (pink Vosges sandstone)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: metal insert in use

Notes on Measurements: Palissy [ref.: IM67011636]: "h = 133 ; la = 85"

LID INFORMATION

Date: 18th-19th century?

Material: wood

Apparatus: yes; swing arm secured to the back wall and the wooden 'pill-box' lid

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882