Veltheim nr. Aarau

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ref. Kirche Veltheim"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2011 by Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht [LuFiLa] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ref_Kirche_Veltheim_8512.JPG] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Jurapark Aargau, Reformierte Kirche Veltheim"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 May 2016 by Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht [LuFiLa] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veltheim_DJI_0903.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ref. Kirche Veltheim"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2011 by Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht [LuFiLa] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ref_Kirche_Veltheim_8496.JPG] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph in the Reformierte Kirchen im Aargau [https://www.ref-kirchen-ag.ch/kirchen/veltheim/inneres] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ref. Kirche Veltheim"

Image Source: digital photograph 7 April 2011 by Lutz Fischer-Lamprecht [LuFiLa] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ref_Kirche_Veltheim_8510.JPG] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph in the Reformierte Kirchen im Aargau [https://www.ref-kirchen-ag.ch/kirchen/veltheim/inneres] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Der spätgotische Taufstein besteht aus einem achteckigen Kelch über einem ebensolchem Schaft und viereckigem Fuss."

Image Source: digital photograph in the Reformierte Kirchen im Aargau [https://www.ref-kirchen-ag.ch/kirchen/veltheim/inneres] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24850VEL

Church/Chapel: Reformierte Dorfkirche Veltheim

Church Location: Oberdorfstrasse, 5106 Veltheim, Switzerland

Country Name: Switzerland

Location: Aargau

Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road K471 [aka Burgerstrasse], S of highway 3, on the W bank of the Aare river, 10 km ENE of Aarau

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

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: a church here may have existed ca. 745; replaced by a new church dedicated to St John the Baptist ca. 1040; tower added 1250; Reformed 1528; demolished 1760 with new church built on its old foundations; restrored and renovated since

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The entry for this church in the Reformierte Kirchen im Aargau [https://www.ref-kirchen-ag.ch/kirchen/veltheim/inneres] [accessed 3 August 2023] notes and illustrates a late-Gothic octagonal basin on an octagonal-to-square base ["Der spätgotische Taufstein besteht aus einem achteckigen Kelch über einem ebensolchem Schaft und viereckigem Fuss."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.438295, 8.147355

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 26′ 17.86″ N, 8° 8′ 50.48″ E

UTM: 32T 435709 5254224

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal