Murbach / Vivarius Peregrinorum

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: a modern stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2009 by Rando-bivouac [www.rando-bivouac.com/article-33071094.html] [accessed 29 May 2015]

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view of church exterior - east façade - detail

Scene Description: two scenes at the very top

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east façade - detail

Scene Description: one of the two scenes at the very top

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east façade - detail

Scene Description: one of the two scenes at the very top

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east façade - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east façade - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east façade - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

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view of church exterior - southeast portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2013 by Ginette Mathis [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murbach_-_abbaye_de_Murbach_30.JPG] [accessed 29 May 2017]

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view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Haut-Rhin, Murbach, Eglise abbatiale, Monument funéraire des moines martyrs, Statues de Saint-Michel, de Saint-Léger ?, du pape Saint-Corneille". -- monument listed in Palissy [ref.: IM68000483]

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view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: listed in Palissy [ref.: IM68000483]: "Monument sépulcral composé d'un tombeau du 10e ou 11e siècle et d'une dalle du 18e siècle".

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 August 2002 by BSI

view of stoup

Scene Description: a modern stoup

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view of stoup - detail

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INFORMATION

FontID: 04500MUR

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale [ancienne abbatiale] Saint-Léger

Church Patron Saints: St. Leger [aka Ledger, Léger, Leodegar, Leodegarius]

Church Location: rue de l'Eglise, 68530 Murbach, France

Country Name: France

Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est

Directions to Site: Located near Buhl, 6 km from Guebwiller, 33 km SW of Colmar

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg

Historical Region: Vosges, Alsace

Century and Period: 8th - 11th century, Early Christian / Medieval

Church Notes: Eberhard, the brother of the Duke of Alsace, Luitfreid, founded the abbey of Murbach, under the ancient name of Vivarius Peregrinorum in 727; destroyed by Hungarian raiders in 926; Romanesque building of 1120-1170 (?) of which chancel and transepts survive; 13thC reconstruction; late-14thC the English ransack the abbey and a fire damages it in 1382; abbey abandoned by monks 1759; the abbey church becomes parochial in 1760; main restoration in 1980s -- listed in Mérimée [référence PA00085554]

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Baptismal font of the 18th century listed in Palissy [ref.: IM68000485]. The Inventaire général... (1972) reports a 17th century holy-water stoup here; the octagonal pedestal is decorated with ribbed pattern and raised on a pedestal. There is also an 18th-century baptismal font, and a curious wall-mounted stoup of roughly cylindrical shape, decorated with a dove carrying an olive (?) branch, and a carp with the Greek symbol "ΙΧΘΥΣ" (Ichthus) [Ίησοῦς Χριστός, Θεοῦ Υἱός, Σωτήρ] [= Jesus Christ, God's Son, [Our] Saviour]; the object appears modern. [cf. Index entry for Guebwiller No. 1]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.923333, 7.158056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 55′ 24″ N, 7° 9′ 29″ E

UTM: 32T 362398 5309421

REFERENCES

Inventaire général des monuments et des richesses artistiques de la France: Commission régionale d'Alsace, Haut-Rhin: canton Guebwiller (2 vols.), Paris: Imprimérie nationale, 1972