St. Wendel

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015

Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 February 2015)

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sebastian Decker, Messdiener Winterbach, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 June 2013 by Sebastian Decker, Messdiener Winterbach [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_St._Wendel_03.jpg] [accessed 1 Fabruary 2015]

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view of church exterior in context - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © EPei (Diskussion), 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 November 2013 by EPei (Diskussion) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_WND_Südansicht_1.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2015]

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view of church interior - choir - detail

Scene Description: Via Crucis; detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: "Sarg des heiligen Wendelinus in St. Wendel"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © atreyu, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by atreyu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Wendel_-_Wendalinusbasilika_Innen_02.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2015]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © atreyu, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by atreyu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Wendel_-_Wendalinusbasilika_Innen_06.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 18th-century font from Tholey

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2014 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 February 2015)

view of font cover

Scene Description: the 20th-century font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 August 2014 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 February 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 19697WEN
Church/Chapel: Wendalinusbasilika / Wendelsdom
Church Patron Saints: St. Wendelin of Trier
Church Location: Fruchtmarkt 19, 66606 Sankt Wendel, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6851 939700
Country Name: Germany
Location: Sankt Wendel, Saarland
Directions to Site: Located 36 km NE of Saarbrücken
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Trier
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: original church here 9th-10thC; next church 14th-15thC
The present font in this church is an oval marble font of the 18th century brough acquired in 1795 from the abbey of Tholey. Its cover is modern, 20th-century. [NB: we have no information on the baptismal font of the original church of the 9th-10th century here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.46795, 7.17095
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 28′ 4.62″ N, 7° 10′ 15.42″ E
UTM: 32U 367480 5481086