Abtsdorf

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Kath. Pfarrkirche hl. Laurentius mit Friedhof"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Ledl, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 27 August 2012 by Thomas Ledl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attersee_Abtsdorf_Kirche_2.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kath. Pfarrkirche hl. Laurentius"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Ledl, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2012 by Thomas Ledl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attersee_Abtsdorf_Kirche_innen.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2023]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: Gotisches Taufbecken in der Pfarrkirche Abtsdorf

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franz Fuchs, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 21 February 2018 by Franz Fuchs [https://www.atterwiki.at/index.php/Datei:Taufbecken_in_der_Pfarrkirche_Abtsdorf.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24703ABT
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche hl. Laurentius
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Abtsdorf .54/1, 4864 Abtsdorf, Austria
Country Name: Austria
Location: Vöcklabruck, Oberösterreich
Directions to Site: Located about 1 km W of road 151 and the W shore of the Attersee, about 35 km ENE of Salzburg
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Linz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Medieval
Church Notes: parish founded 955 AD; documented 1142; present building late-15thC; modified ca. 1700; renovated 1912-1914; restored 1960
The entry for this church in Attersee-Attergau Slazkammergut [https://attersee-attergau.salzkammergut.at/oesterreich-poi/detail/402162/pfarrkirche-abtsdorf.html] [accessed 26 April 2023] reports a Gothic font with a Baroque cover: "Der Taufstein ist ein mächtiger, gotischer Stein mit schönem barockem Deckel." The font consists of an octagonal basin with plain sides, a concave chamfer below to an also octagonal base. The wooden cover is a low octagonal pyramid with panelled sides and a Baptism of Christ figural finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.909404, 13.513189
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 54′ 33.85″ N, 13° 30′ 47.48″ E
UTM: 33T 388898 5307301

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: Baroque
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]