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design element - architectural - column - 6
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinden Waltershausen und Saal, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Eberhard und Gunter Wüstling's Geschichte der St. Georgskirche (2017) [http://waltershausen-saal-evangelisch.de/kirchen/st-georgskirche/] [accessed 9 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinden Waltershausen und Saal, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Eberhard und Gunter Wüstling's Geschichte der St. Georgskirche (2017) [http://waltershausen-saal-evangelisch.de/kirchen/st-georgskirche/] [accessed 9 July 2023]
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design element - patterns - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinden Waltershausen und Saal, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Eberhard und Gunter Wüstling's Geschichte der St. Georgskirche (2017) [http://waltershausen-saal-evangelisch.de/kirchen/st-georgskirche/] [accessed 9 July 2023]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinden Waltershausen und Saal, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Eberhard und Gunter Wüstling's Geschichte der St. Georgskirche (2017) [http://waltershausen-saal-evangelisch.de/kirchen/st-georgskirche/] [accessed 9 July 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Saal an der Saale, Waltershausen, Kirche und Schloß,"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2014 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saal_an_der_Saale,_Waltershausen,_Kirche_und_Schloß,_002.jpg
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24746WAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Pfarkirche Sankt Georg, Walterhausen
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Kirchpl. 9, Waltershausen, 97633 Saal an der Saale, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Unterfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off (SW) local road S12280 [aka Am Brumtor], E of highway 71, in the municipality and just N of Saal an der Saale, about 55 km ESE of Fulda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SE corner of the nave
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing these fonts to our attention and for his help in documenting them
Church Notes: present church built 1484-1485 to replace a dilapidated an earlier building dedicated to St George, St Mary and the Three Wise Kings; expanded 1696; renovated 1796;
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font here is described and illustrated in Eberhard und Gunter Wüstling's Geschichte der St. Georgskirche (2017) [http://waltershausen-saal-evangelisch.de/kirchen/st-georgskirche/] [accessed 9 July 2023]: made of sandstone ca. 1600 ["Der aus Sandstein bestehende Taufstein mit sechsseitigem Becken stammt aus der Barockzeit um 1600. In der Nischengliederung befindet sich eine weitere Jahreszahl FC 1789"; it is painted and bears on one side the inscription "FC / 1789"; it consists of a hexagonal basin with pillars at the corners, the rounded underbowl also hexagonal; raised on a round pedestal base decorated with piping all around; moulded lower base also circular.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.338612, 10.384689
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20′ 19″ N, 10° 23′ 4.88″ E
UTM: 32U 598536 5577197
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on one panel of the basin
Inscription Text: "FC / 1789"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]