Vienna No. 4 / Wien / Vindobona
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 August 2018)
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Scene Description: seen here on the right, appearinf to be a chancel directly attached to the tower, is the medieval church of St. Peter that would be destroyed by fire in 1661
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1609 illustration by Jacob Hoefnagel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GrabenHoefnagel1609.jpg] [accessed 26 August 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Baroque reconstruction of the medieval church that burned down in 1661
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 August 2018)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenansicht der Rektoratskirche St. Peter in der Bundeshauptstadt Wien. Die Kirche, erster barocker Kuppelbau Wiens, wurde ab 1701 von der Laiengemeinschaft Der Bruderschaft der Allerheiligsten Dreifaltigkeit errichtet (ab 1703 nach Plänen von Johann Lucas von Hildebrandt) und 1733 vollendet sowie geweiht. Die barocke Ausstattung stammt von bedeutenden Künstlern wie Matthias Steinl, Johann Michael Rottmayr und Martino Altomonte."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bwag, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 June 2014 by Bwag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wien_-_Peterskirche,_Innenansicht.JPG] [accessed 26 August 2018]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the present font and cover, probably introduced in the 18thC reconstruction of this church [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 April 2018 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 August 2018)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21793WIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Peterskirche / Rektoratskirche St. Peter
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity [formerly St. Peter]
Church Location: Petersplatz, 1010 Wien, Austria
Country Name: Austria
Location: Wien / Vienna
Directions to Site: Located in the historical centre, S of the Danube, W of the canal
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Wien
Century and Period: 6th - 12th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the church and present font
Church Notes: original church here may go back to the 5thC [https://web.archive.org/web/20081015170937/http://www.peterskirche.at/kirche/kirche.htm] and have been the first parish church in Vienna; Romanesque church re-built in late-Gothic period; destroyed by fire 1661 -- transferred in 1970 to Opus Dei priests
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church consists of a round marble with stops and bronze [?] inserts at 90-degree angles; round underbowl; round pedestal base and round-to-octagonal lower base, with graded mouldings on the round upper part; all of it of a greyish veined marble. On a stone octagonal plinth. The bel--shaped cover is made of metal [copper?] and decorated with bronze details and ball finial. The font probably belongs to the 1701 re-building started in 1701. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here, presumably destroyed with the church itself in 1661].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.2093, 16.3695
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 12′ 33.48″ N, 16° 22′ 10.2″ E
UTM: 33U 601744 5340470