Isny No. 2 / Isny im Allgäu
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior - tower - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context
![Source caption: "Isny im Allgäu, geistlicher Bezirk mit ev. Nikolaikirche und dem kath. Kloster St. Georg; vor dem Brand von 1631; doppelseitige Vedute in der Klosterchronik; die klostereigenen Gebäude sind mit roten Dächern hervorgehoben; Klosterarchiv Isny" [NB: the abbey roofs in red]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0150123002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Isny im Allgäu, geistlicher Bezirk mit ev. Nikolaikirche und dem kath. Kloster St. Georg; vor dem Brand von 1631; doppelseitige Vedute in der Klosterchronik; die klostereigenen Gebäude sind mit roten Dächern hervorgehoben; Klosterarchiv Isny" [NB: the abbey roofs in red]
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Image Source: scan of a ca. 1631 illustration in Reichsabtei St. Georg in Isny 1096–1802 (1996) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isny_Geistlicher_Bezirk_vor_1631.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 23 January 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster St. Georg Isny im Bildersturm, Detail vom Porträt des Abts Ambrosius Horn (Abtgalerie in der Marienkapelle der Klosterkirche Isny)"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 2014 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kloster_Isny_Bildersturm_Detail_vom_Porträt_Abt_Ambrosius_Horn.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 23 January 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Isny before and after the great fire of 1631; St. George's Abbey church is the building with two spires to the right, with the rest of the monastery adjacent."
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Image Source: scan of an original illustration in the 1643 ed. of Matthäus Merian's Topographia Sueviae (Franlkfurt-am-Main: Frankfurter Kunstverein, 1925) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_Merian_Sueviae_139.jpg] [accessed 23 January 2015]
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view of church interior - ceiling - painting
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 21 January 2015)
view of church interior - pulpit - sounding board
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 21 January 2015)
view of church interior - altar and retable
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 August 2014 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 19677ISN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (late?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Pfarrkirche St. Georg und Jakobus / Kloster St. Georg / Reichskloster St Georg in Isny im Allgäu
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George and St. James
Church Notes: monastery founded in 1096; burned down 1284; 'Hallenkirche' re-built and consecrated 1284; destroyed by fire 1631; re-built 1656-1666; later imperial abbey until 1802;
Church Address: 88316 Isny im Allgäu, Germany
Site Location: Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L318, 25-30 km E of Wangen im Allgäu
Historical Region: Freie Reichsstadt until 1803
Additional Comments: disappeared or destroyed font? (the one from the church original 11thC monastery here)
Font Notes:
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The present font of reddish marble dates probably from one of the re-buildings of the monastery church here; it consists of an octagonal basin of uneven sides raised on a baluster-shaped pedestal basin; the basin has a metal insert. We have no information on the font of the medieval monastery church here; the original may have been destroyed in the 1284 fire that burned the church down].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 578266 5282805
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.693889, 10.043056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 41′ 38″ N, 10° 2′ 35″ E