Dachau
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 October 2011)
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2011 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 October 2011)
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2011 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 October 2011)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2011 by Colin Smith http://geo-en.hlipp.de/photo/22265^¸ âccessed 4 December 2011
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 October 2011)
INFORMATION
FontID: 17783DAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St Jakob / Stadtpfarrkirche St Jakob
Church Patron Saints: St. James
Church Location: Pfarrstr. 7, 85221 Dachau
Standort: Dachau
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberbayern, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located in Altstadt Dachaus
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the nave, on the S side of the presbitery
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of church and font
Church Notes: the present church is 17th-century and replaces an earlier medieval building
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Parish web site [www.kirchenundkapellen.de/kirchen/dah-jakob.php] [accessed 4 December 2011]: "Noch aus der Vorgängerkirche übernommen wurde der achteckige, spätgotische Rotmarmortaufstein des 15. Jh. Century Er steht auf einem 87 cm hohen Fuß und hat einen Durchmesser von rd. 100 cm. Auf dem hölzernen Deckel aus der Barockzeit (um 1700) steht dekorativ eine Skulpturengruppe, die der Künstler Adam Luidl aus Mering 1675 geformt hat. Sie stellt die Taufe Jesu am Jordan dar. Jesus kniet am steinigen Ufer des Jordan, während ihn Johannes tauft. Johannes hält einen Kreuzstab mit dem Schriftband "Ecce Agnus Dei - seht das Lamm Gottes" in der linken Hand. Figuren der Schnitzerfamilie Luidl aus Landsberg u.Mering stehen auch in den Kirchen von Egenburg, Feldgeding, Lauterbach, Sittenbach, Rudelzhofen und Prittlbach." Baptismal font of reddish marble in the late 15th century; it consists of an octagonal basin with plain vertical sides, raised on an octagonal pedestal and a lower base of the same shape. The font cover, made by Adam Luidl in 1675, is a low dome with a large scene of the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist. [NB: we have no information on the font from the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 680657 5348094
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 100 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Parish web site]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1675
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]