Interlaken / Aarmühle

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph 26 December 2010 by Christine Zenino [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interlaken_(5339626955).jpg] [accessed 11 April 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the present font in this church [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph [source not given] supplied by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 24673INT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Reformierte Schlosskirche Interlaken

Church Location: Schloss 7, 3800 Interlaken, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 33 822 45 33

Country Name: Switzerland

Location: Bern

Directions to Site: Located off road 6, on the E bank of the Aare river, on the isthmus between Thunersee (W) and the Brienzersee (E)

Century and Period: 12th century, 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: Augustinian monastery church built in 1133; dissolved 16thC; restored and re-dedicated to cult 1911

Font Notes: Click to view

The present baptismal font in this church consists of a roughly hemispherical basin beneath an octagonal upper rim, the side decorated with trefoiled tracery arch-heads ending in little blank shields; there may be an inscription on one (?) the rim sides; the base is totally different in style and design, octagonal to square and covered in large foliage motifs. Wooden cover, octagonal, flat and plain; modern. This font is either a modern rendering of earlier designs, or a composite of two earlier pieces totally retooled. [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.683951, 7.851662

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 41′ 2.23″ N, 7° 51′ 5.98″ E

UTM: 32T 412184 5170684