Hainichen in Kitzscher / Haynchen
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bild Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche vor 1945 mit barockem Turm"
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Image Source: digital image 4 May 2014 of an undated B&W photograph [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche_1945_mit_Türmchen.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 27 May 2017]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche in Hainichen (Stadt Kitzscher)".
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 March 2012 by Jwaller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HainichenHlkr1.JPG?uselang=de] [accessed 27 May 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenansicht Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche, Blick auf den Altar" -- the new font is partially visible on the right side of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2014 by Avatar1206 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innenansicht_Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 27 May 2017]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 21244HAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Ev. Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Hainichen (Kitzscher)
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross
Church Location: Hauptstraße 17, 04567 Kitzscher, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Leipzig, Sachsen
Directions to Site: Located off the K7928, just N of Kitzscher, 24 km SE of Leipzig
Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly in the diocese of Merseburg]
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: original Romanesque chapel here probably 12thC, expanded 13thC; restored ca. 1700; badly damaged in WWII; restored 1980s
Font Notes:
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The discovery of a fragment of a porphyry baptismal font of the Romanesque period in the restoration work of the 1980s here is reported in the Stadt Kitzscher web site [www.kitzscher.de/stadtleben/kirche-ii/die-heilig-kreuz-kirche-zu-hainichen.html] [accessed 27 May 2017]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11' 36" N, 12° 33' 33" E
UTM: 33U 329496 5673951
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, porphyry