Breisach / Alt-Breisach / Breisach am Rhein / Bresacum / Brisach am Rhin / Brisache / Brisacum / Vieux-Brisach
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Results: 14 records
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Münster St. Stephan (Breisach am Rhein)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LigaDue, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 25 February 2022 by LigaDue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BreisachAmRheinMuensterStStephan9.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Westportal des Breisacher Münsters mit dem Tympanon St. Stephan."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Taxiarchos228, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2007 by Taxiarchos228 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breisacher_Münster_Westportal.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Tympanon des Westportals, Breisacher Münster."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Taxiarchos228, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 22 March 2008 by Taxiarchos228 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breisacher_Muenster_Tympanon_des_Westportals.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Historische Ansicht von Breisach und des Breisacher Münsters; oben die Ansicht von Osten, darunter die Westansicht nach einem Kupferstich von de:Matthäus Merian, 1644"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1644 copperplate engraving by Matthäus Merian, in Fahrer et al., Münsterpfarrei St. Stephan Breisach (Hrsg.): Das Breisacher Münster, Verlag Schnell & Steiner GmbH, 2005, Seite 5 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breisacher_Muenster_(historisch).jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-100
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Das Stephansmünster ist eine romanisch-gotische Kirche. Sie gilt als Wahrzeichen der Stadt Breisach am Rhein."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © W. Bulach, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 April 2015 by W. Bulach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0_Breisach_am_Rhein_-_Stephansmünster.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: Source caption: " Breisacher Stephansmünster, Hochaltar (Meister HL)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © 1971markus, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 18 May 2019 by 1971markus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breisacher_Stephansmünster,_Hochaltar_(3).jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel - rood-screen, choir-screen; iconostasis - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lettner des Breisacher Münsters."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Taxiarchos228, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 26 April 2008 by Taxiarchos228 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breisacher_Munster_Lettner.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "nterior of Breisacher Münster Schiff"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Akiramifune, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 25 December 2019 by Akiramifune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Breisacher_Münster_Schiff.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Breisacher Stephansmünster, Langhaus."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © 1971markus, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 18 May 2019 by 1971markus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Breisacher_Stephansmünster,_Langhaus_(1).jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church interior - west end - painting
Scene Description: Source caption: "Breisacher Münster: Martin Schongauers Wandbild Das Jüngste Gericht (Westwand)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Taxiarchos228, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 26 April 2008 by Taxiarchos228 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schongauers_Jungstes_Gericht_(Westwand).jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of church interior - west end - painting - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of Breisacher Münster Nordwand Hölle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Akiramifune, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 25 December 2019 by Akiramifune [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Breisacher_Münster_Nordwand_Hölle.jpg] [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of font
![the baptismal font in 2006 [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: the baptismal font in 2006 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hermann Metz, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 2006 in Hermann Metz' article 'Wie sich eine alte Kirche verändert' in Unser Münster n° 37, 2/2006 [accessed 3 December 2022]
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view of font
Scene Description: the font in the foreground consists of a metal structure that appears to include a stone basin inside; the font(?) in the background is obviously partially built into the wall behind, a polygonal basin on a pedestal base with a decorated middle section; it appears to have a metal lining [NB: we have no information on these two objects]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font in context
![Source caption: "Das Taufbecken p oberhalb des linken Chorgestühls. Über seinen Verbleib ist nichts bekannt." -- an octgaonal font is partially visible here on the left, , behind the choir stalls [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0221203011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Das Taufbecken p oberhalb des linken Chorgestühls. Über seinen Verbleib ist nichts bekannt." -- an octgaonal font is partially visible here on the left, , behind the choir stalls [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a detail of a 1831 painting by Gervas Kretzmeyer, reproduced in Hermann Metz' 'Wie sich eine alte Kirche verändert' in Unser Münster n° 37, 2/2006 [https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de] [accessed 3 December 2022]
Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 24480BRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: St. Stephansmünster / Breisacher Stephansmünster
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Münsterpl. 2, 79206 Breisach am Rhein, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7667 203
Country Name: Germany
Location: Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg
Directions to Site: Located off (N) county road 31, on the E bank of the Rhein river, just E of the border with France, approximately equidistant between Colma (WNW and Freiburg im Breisgau (ESE)
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: original church possibly Merovingian or Carolingian (nothing remains); church here first documented 1139; late-12thC (1195-1230) monastery church was also parish church for Breisach; extended 13th and 15thC; damaged 1870, 1940; restored 1945-1961
Font Notes:
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A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 4 August 2022) informs: "The oldest picture of the baptismal font of Breisach is from 1831, when Gervas Kretzmeyer painted the church choir. This octagonal font has since then disappeared. In 1891, Otto Langer described the font of Breisach in the Breisacher Zeitung: 'Der Taufstein besitzt die vier Hauptbestandteile des Kelchs: Fuß, Schaft, Knopf und Cuppa (Schale oder Krater). Was am hiesigen Taufstein außer seiner wohldurchdachten Form von besonderer Schönheit ist, das sind die in halberhabener Arbeit (Basrelief) angebrachten Ornamente. Die Taufschale ist von einem gotischen, aus Spitzbogen bestehenden Fries umrahmt. Fuß und Schaft tragen Ornamente anderen Styles.' In 2006, Hermann Metz writes an article 'Wie sich eine alte Kirche verändert' in Unser Münster n° 37, 2/2006: Da der heutige Fuß ohne jede Ornamentik ist, heißt dies: Vom ursprünglichen Taufstein ist heute nur noch das (verwitterte) Oberteil vorhanden and he prints a picture of the font. The recent picture of the baptismal font(s ?) show something different." Metz (ibid.) has an added illustration of the present font, captioned: "Heutiges Taufbecken. Schale mit Spitzbogenfries."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.029167, 7.579722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 1′ 45″ N, 7° 34′ 47″ E
UTM: 32U 394115 5320518