Papenburg / Papenberg

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 November 2018)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Martina Nolte, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2013 by Martina Nolte (cropped & brightened by Rabanus Flavus) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Papenburg_St._Antonius.jpg] [accessed 12 November 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 November 2018)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern [19thC?] font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 June 2018 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 November 2018)

INFORMATION

FontID: 11187PAP
Church/Chapel: Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Antonius
Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]
Church Location: address & coordinates are for the new church: Kirchstraße 14, 26871 Papenburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4961 947210
Country Name: Germany
Location: Emsland, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (E) highway 70, 20 km SSW of Leer
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Osnabrück (RC)
Date: ca. 1682?
Century and Period: 17th century(late?),
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this modern church and font
Church Notes: original RC church consecrated 1682; expanded 1777-1778; demolished; re-built in Gothic-Revival style on the other side of the canal in 1878-1881
The present font in this church is modern, probably of the Gothic-Revival re-building of 1878-1881. [NB: we have no information on the font of the late-1th century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.07925, 7.39521
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 4′ 45.3″ N, 7° 23′ 42.76″ E
UTM: 32U 392503 5882290