Alsfeld No. 2

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2007 by Oliver Abels [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alsfeld_-_Dreifaltigkeitskirche.jpg] [accessed 17 April 2014]

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]; seen here being used as manger in a children's Nativity play in December 2013

Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Alsfeld [www.evangelische-kirche-alsfeld.de/index.php?id=45&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=254&type=1] [accessed 17 April 2014]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19154ALS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Dreifaltigkeitskirche [originally church of the Augustinereremitenkloster zum Erlöser]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [since 1664 -- originally Our Saviour?]

Church Location: Roßmarkt 26, Roßmarkt 16, Volkmarstraße 3, Klostermauerweg, Alsfeld, Hesse, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Giessen, Hesse

Directions to Site: Located in the SW of the city

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz

Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic

Church Notes: church of the Augustinian monastery built here ca. 1435 [Augustinereremitenkloster zum Erlöser]; dissolved in 1527 and abandoned after the Reformation, was re-condecrated in 1664

Font Notes: Click to view

The present font in this church is modern, monolithic, square and tapering towards the bottom. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original mid-15th century chruch here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.7497, 9.2702

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 58.92″ N, 9° 16′ 12.72″ E

UTM: 32U 519062 5622026