Dietwiller / Dietweiler
Image copyright © Région Alsace - Inventaire général, 1981
No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
Results: 3 records
view of font
Scene Description: in the Commanderie d'hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, collection lapidaire du musée historique, in 1981
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Alsace - Inventaire général, 1981
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1981 by Jean-Claude Stamm, in Mémoire [ref.: IVR42_19816800869P] [www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/1322/ivr42_19816800869p_p.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the late-19thC church, showing the renovations of 2006
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rauenstein, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2010 by Rauenstein [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dietwiller,_Eglise_Saint-Nicolas_1.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: the late-15thC tower is all that remains of the originally-12thC 'ancienne église Saint-Nicolas', destroyed by fire in 1883
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rauenstein, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2010 by Rauenstein [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dietwiller,_Vieille_Tour.jpg] [accessed 15 April 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20500DIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Renaissance
Museum: Commanderie d'Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, actuellement collection lapidaire du musée historique, Grand' rue, Mulhouse, France
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Nicolas [ancienne église]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: the remains of the old church are listed in Mérimée [ref.: IA00122429]
Church Address: Museum address: Commanderie d'Hospitaliers de Saint-Jean-de-Jérusalem, actuellement collection lapidaire du musée historique, Grand' rue, Mulhouse, France [NB: coordinates given are for Dietwiller and its new church]
Site Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Dietwiller is located off the D68, between Eschentzwiller (N) and Schlierbach (S), just SE of Mulhouse, in its Agglomération
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Strasbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Additional Comments: disused font / moved font (the 17thC font in a Mulhouse museum, originally from Dietwiller) -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church destroyed by bire in 1883)
Font Notes:
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A baptismal font of 17th-century date from the old church here is now in the lapidarium at the former Hospitalers ' commanderie in Mulhouse. It is roughly of hemispherical shape with mouldings, raised on a round to square pedestal base; both parts damaged. It is listed in Palissy [ref.: IM68003251]: "Fonts baptismaux [calcaire] provenant de Dietwiller (haut Rhin) [...] 17e siècle (?) [...] Parties cassées". [NB: the original church here dated from the 12th century but we have no information on its font].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 380087 5283279
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.691764, 7.401969
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 41′ 30.35″ N, 7° 24′ 7.09″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round