Wangen im Allgau / Wangen im Allgäu
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: "Taufstein (1692)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wangen_Pfarrkirche_St_Martinus_innen_4.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2023]
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information
Scene Description: 1692
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wangen_Pfarrkirche_St_Martinus_innen_4.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wangen im Allgäu, Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Martinus"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph March 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wangen_Pfarrkirche_St_Martinus_außen_2.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die St.-Martins-Kirche in Wangen im Allgäu vom Postplatz aus gesehen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Simon Scharfenberger, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 December 2016 by Simon Scharfenberger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinskirche_vom_Postplatz,_Wangen_im_Allgäu_(2016).jpg] [accessed 27 February 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wangen im Allgäu, Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Martinus. Südliches Seitenschiff mit Taufstein (1692), Täufer- und Magnusaltar (1779) und fünf Epitaphe der Burggrafen von Praßberg"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph March 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wangen_Pfarrkirche_St_Martinus_innen_4.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wangen im Allgäu, Kath. Pfarrkirche St. Martinus. Blick zum Chor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph March 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wangen_Pfarrkirche_St_Martinus_innen_1.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24603WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1692
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(late)
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Martinus, Wangen im Allgäu
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours [plus St. Gallus & St. Magnus?]
Church Notes: possible church here ca. 800; priest here first documented 1182; church modified late-12thC; modified 1386; much modified since
Church Address: Marktpl. 4, 88239 Wangen im Allgäu, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7522 97340
Site Location: Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the B32, about 20 km SE of Ravensburg, NE of Lake Constance in the Westallgäu, near the multiple border with Austria. Liechtenstein and Switzerland
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church cosnsists of an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl; it has a moulding at the upper rim, and the date 1692 in large Roman numerals painted in white on the basin side; octagonal pedestal base decorated with multiple mouldings; on an octagonal lower base and plinth, both of a later date; the material of the font appears to be a very dark stone or marble, possibly painted. Splaying dome octagonal wooden cover with figural finial, the Baptism of Christ, by Johann Wilhelm Hegenauer (1748).
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documentin it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 562601 5281733
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.68595, 9.83416
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 41′ 9.42″ N, 9° 50′ 2.98″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers (Roman numerals)
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]
Inscription Text: "MDCXCII"
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1748
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal splaying dome; figural finial; painted [cf. FontNotes]