Metterich nr. Weilerswist
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Johannes der Täufer (Metternich, Weilerswist)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Chris06, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 February 2019 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Johannes_der_Täufer_(Metternich,_Weilerswist)_(4).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer in Metternich, Bergstraße"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Prof. emeritus Hans Schneider (Geyersberg), 2018
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 27 January 2018 by Prof. emeritus Hans Schneider (Geyersberg) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metternich_Bergstraße_Kirche_(01).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Altäre in der katholischen Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer in Metternich, Bergstraße"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Prof. emeritus Hans Schneider (Geyersberg), 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 27 January 2018 by Prof. emeritus Hans Schneider (Geyersberg) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metternich_Bergstraße_Kirche_(05).jpg] [accessed 7 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24092MET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [& St. Maternus?]
Church Location: Bergstraße, 53919 Weilerswist, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Euskirchen, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off district road 33, E of county road 61, between Weilerswist and Heimerzheim in the municipality of Weilerswist, about 15 km NE of Euskirchen, 30 km SSW of Cologne
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Köln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th century
Church Notes: site may have been originally occupied by a Roman temple; a previously existing church, possibly dedicated to St. Eucarius, is documented in 1303, and later in a 1569 visitation; destroyed in 1630 in the Thirty Years' War; re-built; baptismal font dug up in 1953; renovated 2006-2009
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Pfarrein Gemeinschaft Speicher [https://www.pfarreiengemeinschaft-speicher.de/pfarreien/pfarrei-metterich/] [accessed 7 July 2022] reports an octagonal baptismal font of the 16th century in it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.738319, 6.891056
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 17.95″ N, 6° 53′ 27.8″ E
UTM: 32U 351192 5622847
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal