Wangen im Allgau / Wangen im Allgäu
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Scene Description: 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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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 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 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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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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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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INFORMATION
FontID: 24603WAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Martinus, Wangen im Allgäu
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours [plus St. Gallus & St. Magnus?]
Church Location: Marktpl. 4, 88239 Wangen im Allgäu, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7522 97340
Country Name: Germany
Location: Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg
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
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel
Date: 1692
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documentin it
Church Notes: possible church here ca. 800; priest here first documented 1182; church modified late-12thC; modified 1386; much modified since
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).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.68595, 9.83416
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 41′ 9.42″ N, 9° 50′ 2.98″ E
UTM: 32T 562601 5281733
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]