Eschenz

Results: 7 records

coat of arms

Scene Description: on a red shield, bearing a golden Greek or Maltese cross over a crescent

coat of arms

Scene Description: on a yellow shield, bearing two ravens (?)

coat of arms - Benedikt Harder

Scene Description: on a green/blue shield, bearing a whole millwheel and the initials BH, belonging to Benedikt Harder, deputy bailif of Eschenz - a/p identification in Schätze des Glaubens (1999: 128)

coat of arms - Hans Bach

Scene Description: a church treasurer (?), a/p identification in Schätze des Glaubens (1999: 128)

coat of arms - Joseph Weber

Scene Description: on an orange/red shield bearing a half millwheel, a heart and the initials IW - a/p identification in Schätze des Glaubens (1999: 128)

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Berger, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 August 2005 by Peter Berger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EschenzKirche.JPG] [accessed 2 November 2019]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, north side, here semi-hidden by the pews

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gemeinde Eschenz, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph in Gemeinde Exchenz [http://www.eschenz.ch/pictures/Kirche_Burg_innen.jpg] [accessed 2 November 2019]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

FontID: 05006ESC
Church/Chapel: Katholische Kirche Mariä Himmelfahrt
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Frauenfelderstrasse 11, 8264 Eschenz, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Thurgau
Directions to Site: Located off (S) highway 13 [Hauptstrasse], 8-9 km N of Frauenfeld, 18-20 km W of Konstanz, on the S bank of the Rhine river
Date: 1580
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Ursula Tschan for her help in documenting this font
Church Notes: an early church or chapel may have existed in Eschenz by the end of the 8thC; a church in Unterschenz is mentioned in 958; the church at Eschenz served Protestant and Catholic denomiations at the end of the 16thC;
Described and illustrated in Schätze des Glaubens (1999: 128) as a chalice-shaped octagonal basin of late-Gothic period design on a short square base; the font is of either painted or naturally almost-white sandstone but has a large shield with a coat of arms brightfully painted on each of its sides: a blue shield charged with a golden Greek cross over a white crescent; then a yellow shield charged with two black ravens (?); an orange/red shield charged with a red heart, a half-millwheel and the initials IW, which the source [cf. supra] identifies as those of Joseph Weber; a greenish/blue shield charged with a full millwheel and the initials BH, which the source identifies as those of Benedikt Harder, deputy bailiff of Eschenz; other shields not visible but mentioned in the source are four more shields, three of them with the initials HB, HT and KPF, respectively; the source identifies HB as those of Hans Bach, of the church treasury. The date 1580 is engraved and painted on the underbowl, under the shield with the two ravens [Reference is given in the source above as "Inventarnummer 4806.1602].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.646479, 8.87512
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 38′ 47.32″ N, 8° 52′ 30.43″ E
UTM: 32T 490621 5277017

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one?
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 70 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 77 cm
Notes on Measurements: Source: Schätze des Glaubens (1999: 128)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers and letters
Inscription Notes: the date is on the underbowl, whereas each set of initials appear in the coats-of-arms [cf. Font notes for identification]
Inscription Location: the sides of the basin and underbowl
Inscription Text: "IW" / "BH" / "HB" / "HT" / "KPF" / "1580"
Inscription Source: Source: Schätze des Glaubens (1999: 128)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: wood,
Notes: octagonal , flat and plain; modern; there are two staples of the old lid still on the upper surface of the rim

REFERENCES

Schätze des Glaubens: Kostbarkeiten aus dem Besitz der thurgauischen Kirchgemeinden, Frauenfeld, Stuttgart, Wien: Verlag Huber, 1999