Amsoldingen
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Christ - Agnus Dei - haloed - with cross - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kraftort Natur, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph Kraftort Natur [https://kraftort-natur.ch/kirche-amsoldingen-starker-kraftort/] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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animal - bird - eagle - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hurni Christoph, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 May 2015 ny Hurni Christoph [https://www.flickr.com/photos/40826712@N00/18043389232] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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animal - in a circle - 7
Scene Description: Rabbit/hare, dog, bird, etc. [NB: the eighth is a haloed cross-bearing Agnus Dei, also in a circle.
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 September 2007 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsoldingen_Stiftskirche03384.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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animal - mammal - goat - passant - in a cricle
Scene Description: a unicorn?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hurni Christoph, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 May 2015 ny Hurni Christoph [https://www.flickr.com/photos/40826712@N00/18020085206/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hurni Christoph, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 May 2015 ny Hurni Christoph [https://www.flickr.com/photos/40826712@N00/17860412729/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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animal - mammal - stag - passant - in a circle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hurni Christoph, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 May 2015 ny Hurni Christoph [https://www.flickr.com/photos/40826712@N00/18020085206/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: rosettes, branches, foliage
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 September 2007 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsoldingen_Stiftskirche03384.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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design element - motifs - floral and foliage
Scene Description: on the pedestal base
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 September 2007 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsoldingen_Stiftskirche03384.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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unidentified
Scene Description: a bear erased? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hurni Christoph, 2015
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 May 2015 ny Hurni Christoph [https://www.flickr.com/photos/40826712@N00/18046626715/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Museumskommission, Thun, 1968
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by M. Hesse, in W. Gresky (1968)
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view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche Amsoldingen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 14 October 2007 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsoldingen_Stiftskirche03632.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Amsoldingen" -- the church tower stands in white amidst the greenery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Zumbühl, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 25 July 2007 by Roland Zumbühl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsoldingen.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Schloss und Kirche Amsoldingen, Schweiz"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2006 by Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SchlossAmsoldingen_6354.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inside the Amsoldingen church - 1"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © zelidar@gmail.com, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 18 June 2017 by zelidar@gmail.com [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_the_Amsoldingen_church_-_3.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Museumskommission, Thun, 1968
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph by M. Hesse, in W. Gresky (1968)
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein im Chor der romanischen Stiftskirche Amsoldingen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 27 September 2007 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amsoldingen_Stiftskirche03384.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24461AMS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Reformierte Kirche von Amsoldingen [Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Mauritius]
Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]
Church Location: Chorherrengasse 4, 3633 Amsoldingen, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Bern
Directions to Site: Located off road 6, 4-5 km SW of Thun, about 30 km SSE of Bern
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic
Cognate Fonts: the font at Wilhelmshausen kei Kassel has several animals on the sides, real and fabulous
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font fragment to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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The animal decoration on this font is studied in Wolfgang Gresky's Das Einhorn vom Medaillonteppich im Thuner Schlossmuseum und andere
Schweizer Einhorn-Darstellungen, in Historisches Museum Schloss Thun 1968, where it is related to some such on a cloth antependium in the museum, on which are identified five figures: St Mauritius, the animal symbols for Mark and Matthew, a pelican plucking its chest and a unicorn.
Gresky (ibid.) Identifies the eight encircled figures: "Die Tiere auf den acht Seiten des Amsoldinger Taufsteines:
Osten: Hase
Südost: Lamm
Süden: Adler
Südwest: Panther (nach Grütter: Löwe)
Westen: zerstört, Bär (?)
Nordwest: Hirsch
Norden: Einhorn
Nordost: Affe (oder Hund?)", [NB: note that the figure on the southeast side is given as a lamb, but it is an Agnus dei, haloed and bearing a cross -- also of note is the identification of the figure on the southwest side as a panther, when it has the mane of a lion that panthers do not have [Grütter, who rightly identifies the panther as a lion is fottnoted "Grütter (s. Literaturverzeichnis) S. 15/16 u n d A b b . S." [Grütter, M a x : Tausendjährige K i r c h e n am Thuner- u n d Brienzersee. Berner Heimatbücherei 66, Bern ^ 19]. Gresky further refers to the baptismal font at Wilhelmshaisen bei Kassel as one also with animals on its sides, both fabulous and real. The west side, now erased, is thought to have had a bear on it but, a bear being the heraldic animal for Bern, it was chiseled away by its enemies. This source further refers to the earlier font at Wilhelmshausen bei Kassel, that has an earlier version of animals on it; Wilhelmshausen is located in the same area.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.7272, 7.57884
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 43′ 37.92″ N, 7° 34′ 43.82″ E
UTM: 32T 391407 5175830
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain