Kloster Banz in Bad Staffelstein / Schloss Banz
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 November 2014)
Results: 7 records
view of font
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 November 2014)
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Banz bei Staffelstein, Oberes Maintal, Bayern"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Presse03, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Presse03 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Banz_Luftbild.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior in context - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Koopmann, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 March 2008 by Simon Koopmann [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Banz_Pano001.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Kloster Banz is up on the hill, on the right; the church down, on the left ise, is Vierzehnheiligen
view of church interior - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 27 November 2014)
view of church interior - nave - looking east - ceiling
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhard Kirchner, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken February 2007 by Reinhard Kirchner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Banz_-_innen.jpg] [accessed 14 December 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2006 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Staffelstein_Kloster_Banz_Innen_1.JPG] [accessed 14 December 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19571BAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (late?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Kirche St. Petrus und St. Dionysios
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter & St. Dionisius
Church Notes: former Benedictine abbey founded ca. 1070; destroyed in the Thirty Years' War; re-built 1698, church consecrated 1719; secularised 1803 and made into a castle by Wilhelm, Herzog in Bayern, in 1813
Church Address: Kloster Banz 18, 96231 Bad Staffelstein, Germany
Site Location: Oberfranken, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located near Bamberg -- this church makes up the "Goldene Pforte" with Vierzehnheiligen, opposite, the gate to the cities of Coburg, Kronach, Kulmbach and Bayreuth
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Bamberg
Historical Region: Herzogtum Franken
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the late-11thC abbey church here)
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information on the font of the late-11th century church here]. The present font, of reddish speckled marble is probably 18th or 19th-century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 642993 5555310
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.132778, 11.000833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 7′ 58″ N, 11° 0′ 3″ E