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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2009 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenberg_Stadtkirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 April 2010] Reproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: on the 19thC font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2009 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenberg_Stadtkirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 April 2010] Reproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the 19thC font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2009 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenberg_Stadtkirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 April 2010] Reproduced under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16337EIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische Stadtkirche St. Peter, Eisenberg
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: church documented 1219; built on the site of a 12thC chapel; much modified since
Church Address: Markt 17, 07607 Eisenberg, Germany
Site Location: Saale-Holzland, Thüringen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road 7, E of Hwy A9, about 18 km NW of Gera. The church is located on the N side of the market square, behind the town hall
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadtkirche_St._Peter_(Eisenberg)] [accessed 31 August 2025] reports a marble baptismal font donated in 1880 by Princess Marie Albrecht of Prussia: "Den Marmortaufstein stiftete im selben Jahr Marie Prinzessin Albrecht von Preußen." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with an upper rim moulding, and traceried sides below (quatrefoils, etc.), another moulding at the centre ring; one an octagonal stem decorated with foliage, mouldings and tracery, and a two-level octagonal lower base. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 704023 5650359
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.968653, 11.905865
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 58′ 7.15″ N, 11° 54′ 21.11″ E