Konstanz No. 1 / Constance
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 June 2023)
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 8 January by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 25 June 2023)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Konstanz, Dreifaltigkeitskirche von Nordosten gesehen."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 29 April 2018 by Renardo la vulpo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konstanz,_Dreifaltigkeitskirche_v_NO,_1.jpeg] [accessed 26 June 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero
view of church interior - nave - south side - painting - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Konstanz, Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Südwand"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fb78, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 11 June 2006 by Fb78 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KN_DFK_Innenraum-02-Suedwand.JPG] [accessed 26 June 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Konstanz, Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Innenraum"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fb78, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph 11 June 2006 by Fb78 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KN_DFK_Innenraum-01.JPG] [accessed 26 June 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24712KON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1279?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Konstanzer Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Heilige Dreifaltigkeit / Augustinerkirche [orig.: Kloster der Augustiner-Eremiten] [now ökumenische City-Kirche]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity [since 1745] [orig. St Mary Magdalen?]
Church Notes: church built 13thC [ca. 1279?] for the Augustinian monastery; monastery dissolved 1802; became parochial in 1812 -- church has early-15thC frescoes
Church Address: Rosgartenstraße 25, 78462 Konstanz, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7531 90620
Site Location: Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Altstadt, just N of the Swiss border, off highway 7
Additional Comments: the original font may have been destroyed, with many of the original furnishings, during the Reformation
Font Notes:
Click to view
The present baptismal font is modern [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here; it may have been destroyed with most of the earlier furnishings in the Reformation]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of the modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 513119 5278371
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.6586, 9.17472
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 39′ 30.96″ N, 9° 10′ 28.99″ E