Büchenbach bei Pegnitz
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: at the time when the church restoration work and the relocation of the font were in process
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Monolith Steinrestaurierung, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 2020 in Monolith Steinrestaurierung [https://www.monolith-steinrestaurierung.de/referenzen/kath.-pfarrkirche-st.-vitus/] [accessed 8 September 2022]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Edbruynzeels, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 3 March 2015 by Edbruynzeels [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Büchenbach_Pfarrkirche-St.-Vitus.jpg] [accessed 8 September 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: at the time when the restoration work was in process; notice the font on the right, opposite the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Monolith Steinrestaurierung, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 2020 in Monolith Steinrestaurierung [https://www.monolith-steinrestaurierung.de/referenzen/kath.-pfarrkirche-st.-vitus/] [accessed 8 September 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font in context
Scene Description: at the time when the church restoration work and the relocation of the font were in process -- notice the large scar in the upper rime of the basin; it shows the round drilled hole for the metal anchoring of an old cover [NB:the splitting of the stone ofter occurs as metal and stone have different expansion ratios]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Monolith Steinrestaurierung, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 2020 in Monolith Steinrestaurierung [https://www.monolith-steinrestaurierung.de/referenzen/kath.-pfarrkirche-st.-vitus/] [accessed 8 September 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 24290BUC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche Sant Viktus in Büchenbach bei Pegnitz
Church Patron Saints: St. Vitus [Viktus?]
Church Location: 91257 Pegnitz, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off (E) Bundesautobahn 9, in the municipality and 6 km NNW of Peignitz, about 50 km NE of Nürnberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church; relocated to the SE corner of the nave in 2020
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Monolith Steinrestaurierung [https://www.monolith-steinrestaurierung.de/referenzen/kath.-pfarrkirche-st.-vitus/] [accessed 8 September 2022] on occasion of the restoration of the church interior and the relocation of the baptismal font in it in the year 2020. Octagonal font of stone consisting of an octagonal basin with plain sides and underbowl chamfer, raised on a plain octagonal pedestal base; the inner basin is lined; one of the sides of the upper rim shows a large scar in which the drilled hole for a cover anchring is visible. The present wooden cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.795132, 11.512264
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 47′ 42.47″ N, 11° 30′ 44.15″ E
UTM: 32U 680801 5518881
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern