Bislich

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 134 October 2017)

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view of church exterior - southwest view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Typische Niederrhein-Landschaft: Rheinaue bei Xanten-Lüttingen mit Blick über den Rhein auf Wesel-Bislich mit der Sankt-Johannes-Kirche – Grünland im Vordergrund bis zum Rhein im Naturschutzgebiet „Reeser Schanz, Rheinaue zwischen Obermörmter und Vynen, bei Gut Grindt und Haus Lüttingen“ (NSG WES-011) in Xanten (im Hintergrund die gegenüberliegenden Uferbereiche im NSG WES-025 „Rheinaue Bislich-Vahnum“"

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 June 2010 by Smitfotos (Hans-Theo Smitmans) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRW_NSG_Rheinaue_bei_Haus_Luettingen_Blick_auf_Bislich_IMG_0912a.jpg] [accessed 13 October 2017]

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view of church interior - chancel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 134 October 2017)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 134 October 2017)

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the modern font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2017 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 134 October 2017)

INFORMATION

FontID: 21520BIS
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Sankt-Johannes-Kirche
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: In den Plenken 1, 46487 Wesel, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2859 258
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located in Bislich at the corner of Pastor-Kühnen-Platz and Dorfstraße, 12 km from Wesel town centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Century and Period: 9th - 13th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
Church Notes: original church said to be 9thC; present church originally 13thC; modified late-15thC; re-built 18thC; again late-19thC; destroyed 1945; re-built 1949
The present font is modern, probably from the 18th-century rebuilding of the church here [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.677193, 6.485568
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 40′ 37.9″ N, 6° 29′ 8.05″ E
UTM: 32U 326157 5728129