Meiringen / Magiringin / Meyringen / zu Hasle
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information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © S.J. Widmer, 2009
Image Source: digital image in S.J. Widmer in Jubiläumsfeir 325 Jahre Michaelskirche [12_775 325 Jahre Michaelskirche - die Geschichte.pdf] (2009) [accessed 9 April 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Panorama över Meiringen, Schweiz. Inköpta af Walther och Wilhelmina von Hallwyl, f. Kempe, under deras resa i Schweiz omkring år 1870."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [LSH 103143] of a ca. 1870 photograph scanned by Jenny Bergensten, in the Hallwylska museet [HWY LXVI:A.10] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fotografi_av_Meiringen_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_103143.tif] [accessed 9 April 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden / PD-1996 / CC-PD-Mark
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirche, Meiringen, Schweiz"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thisisbossi, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2007 by Thisisbossi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6030_-_Meiringen_-_Evangelisch-Reformierten_Kirche.JPG] [accessed 9 April 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelisch-Reformierten Kirche, Meiringen, Schweiz" -- the font is visible in the background, right of centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thisisbossi, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 26 July 2007 by Thisisbossi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6040_-_Meiringen_-_Evangelisch-Reformierten_Kirche.JPG] [accessed 9 April 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "ein kelchförmiger Taufstein aus dem 14. Jahrhundert"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reformierte Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn, 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in
Kirchenvisite, Die Kirchengebäude im Gebiet der Reformierten Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn [https://kirchenvisite.ch/kirche/175-meiringen-michaelskirche] [accessed 9 April 2023]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thisisbossi, 2007
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 July 2007 by Thisisbossi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6040_-_Meiringen_-_Evangelisch-Reformierten_Kirche.JPG] [accessed 9 April 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.5
INFORMATION
FontID: 24666MEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-reformierte Sankt Michaelskirche in Meiringen
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Bei der Kirche 8, 3860 Meiringen, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Bern
Directions to Site: Located N of road 6 and the Aare river, 55-60 km ESE of Bern capital
Historical Region: Berner Oberland
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Gothic
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: present church of 1684 built on a site with previous buildings; a church was first documented in 1234, when King Heinrich von Hohenstaufen donated it to the Kreuzritterorden der Lazariter, who served also as parishc priests; transferred to the Augustinians of Interlaken abbey in 1272; much damaged by floods and re-built in the 14th and 15thC, and until its re-building in 1684;
Font Notes:
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The Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankt_Michaelskirche_(Meiringen)] [accessed 9 April 2023] reports a baptismal font in it made of sandstone towards the middle of the 14th century; the embossed copper cover was made in 1949 and has a Haslia eagle as finial: "Der gotische Taufstein aus Sandstein in der Form eines Kelches dürfte um die Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts angefertigt worden sein. Es ist der älteste Gegenstand in der Kirche von 1684. Eine aus getriebenem Kupfer mit einem Hasliadler geschmückte Beckenabdeckung aus dem Jahre 1949 ergänzt diesen historischen Gegenstand in idealer Weise. Die Chronik berichtet, dass der Taufstein im Jahre 1597 aus der Mitte der Kirche versetzt und 1684 in den Chor verlegt wurde."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.729639, 8.189167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 43′ 46.7″ N, 8° 11′ 21″ E
UTM: 32T 438046 5175440
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1949
Material: metal, copper
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]