Bamberg No. 4 / Babenberg / Bambärch / Castrum Babenberch
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view of church exterior - west façade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2007 by Reinhard Kirchner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Michaelsberg_Kirche.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2014]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the abbey complex seen from Altenburg
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2008 by Berthold Werner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Sankt_Michael_BW_5.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2008 by Berthold Werner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Sankt_Michael_BW_8.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19501BAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Michaelskirche, Kloster Michelsberg (aka Michaelsberg)
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located about 50 km NNW of Nuremberg
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Bamberg
Date: ca. 1015?
Century and Period: 11th century (early?), Romanesque
Church Notes: originally a Benedictine abbey founded 1015; destroyed in 1117 earthquake; re-built 1121; damaged by fire 1610
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the early church here]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.893378, 10.877133
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 53′ 36.16″ N, 10° 52′ 37.68″ E
UTM: 32U 634822 5528466