Gottingen No. 2 / Chöttingen / Geismar / Goettingen / Göttingen / Gutingi

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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - southeast view
view of church exterior - southwest view
view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: restored in 1961 with remains of the original retable painted in 1499 by Hans von Geismar [the original retable was disposed as junk at the time of the 1857 renovation of the church, and bought for a silver coin by a student from the church sexton] [pre-restoration: cf. www.zi.fotothek.org/obj/obj19004499/Galerie] [accessed 30 June 2014]]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © January Stubenitzky (Dehio), 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2008 by January Stubenitzky (Dehio) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StAlbani_Goettingen_Altar.jpg] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
view of church interior - nave - looking west
view of font
INFORMATION
FontID: 19313GOT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Albani in Göttingen
Church Patron Saints: St. Alban [aka Albanus]
Church Location: Albanikirchhof 1A, 37073 Göttingen, Germany -- Tel.: 0551 / 581 17
Country Name: Germany
Location: Göttingen, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off the Bd 27, SSW of Northeim, 40 km NE of Kassel. The church is located at the E edge of the medieval town, SE of the old botanical gardens, in what was known as 'Geismarer altes Dorf'
Century and Period: 10th - 13th century, Medieval
Church Notes: original church first documented in 953; re-built through the ages; southwest stone has inscription with date 1423; renovated in 1857
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font is modern [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.533944, 9.941517
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 32' 2.2" N, 9° 56' 29.46" E
UTM: 32U 565 304 5709624