Wimmis
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coat of arms - Andreas Wolf
Scene Description: "Wappen des Kastlans Ludwig von Büren und des Pfarrers Andreas Wolf."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © hausewege.ch, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in hausewege.ch [https://www.hauswege.ch/kirchenwege/kirchen] [accessed 1 August 2023]
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coat of arms - Ludwig von Büren
Scene Description: "Wappen des Kastlans Ludwig von Büren und des Pfarrers Andreas Wolf."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © hausewege.ch, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in hausewege.ch [https://www.hauswege.ch/kirchenwege/kirchen] [accessed 1 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wimmis, Schloss und Kirche St. Martin (eine der 14 Thunerseekirchen) liegen unmittelbar hintereinander. Ansicht der drei Apsiden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © WillYs Fotowerkstatt, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 25 September 2011 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wimmis_Schloss_Kirche-8.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wimmis, das Schloss und die Kirche liegen unmittelbar hintereinander - im Schloss waltet das Gericht, in der Kirche die Gnade"
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 September 2011 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wimmis_Schloss_Kirche-1.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wimmis, reformierte Kirche, Innenansicht in der ganzen behäbigen Breite gegen den Chor, nach Osten orientiert"
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 September 2011 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wimmis_Schloss_Kirche-7.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: partially showing the font and cover in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Brechbühler, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Thomas Brechbühler, in https://kirchenvisite.ch/kirche/294-wimmis-kirche-wimmis [accessed 1 August 2023]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © WillYs Fotowerkstatt, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 25 September 2011 by WillYs Fotowerkstatt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wimmis_Schloss_Kirche-7.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Brechbühler, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Thomas Brechbühler, in https://kirchenvisite.ch/kirche/294-wimmis-kirche-wimmis [accessed 1 August 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24843WIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Martinskirche Wimmis
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Oberdorfstrasse, 3752 Wimmis, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 33 657 06 59
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Frutigen-Niedersimmental, Bern
Directions to Site: Located S of highway 6 and road 11 [Hauptstrasse], 3 km W of Spiez
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of he nave
Date: 1550s?
Century and Period: 16th century(mid?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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: original church 10th- or 11thC; much modified since
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Kirchenvisite Die Kirchengebäude im Gebiet der Reformierten Kirchen Bern-Jura-Solothurn [https://kirchenvisite.ch/kirche/294-wimmis-kirche-wimmis] [accessed 1 August 2023] notes a baptismal font made of stone in 1672 ["der Taufstein von 1672"]. The entry for this church church in hausewege.ch [https://www.hauswege.ch/kirchenwege/kirchen] [accessed 1 August 2023] however, reports a late-Gothic font of between 1552 and 1557, decorated with the coats of arms of castellan Ludwig von Büren and of pastor Andreas Wolf ["Der spätgotische Taufstein wurde zwischen 1552 und 1557 geschaffen. Eingehauen sind die Wappen des Kastlans Ludwig von Büren und des Pfarrers Andreas Wolf."] The font consists of an octagonal basin with a large flat moulding at the upper rim; two coats of arms on the rounded sides; octagonal-to-square pedestal base; octagonal lower base or plinth. Plain wooden cover, octagonal and modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.672927, 7.635440
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 40' 22.5" N, 7° 38' 7.6" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern