Bad Hofgastein No. 2 / Hof Gastein
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - 12
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Weihbrunnschale befindet sich in der mittleren Arkade. Die Schale stammt aus dem Jahre 1520 und besteht aus buntscheckigem Marmor auf einer Serpentinsäule."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anton Ernst Lafenthaler , 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2008 by Anton Ernst Lafenthaler [https://gastein-im-bild.info/eb/ekili75.html] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24880HOF
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Mariä-Himmelfahrt Bad Hofgastein
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Bad Hofgastein 678, 5630 Bad Hofgastein, Austria
Country Name: Austria
Location: Salzburg
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 167, E of highway E55, about 65 km S of Salzburg city
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Date: 1520 [basin only]
Century and Period: 16th century(early) [basin only] [composite stoup], Late Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this stoup to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: church documented 1023; restored 1463; re-built 1498; damaged by fire and restored twice in the 16thC; renovated and restored several times since
The entry for this church in EH - Geschichte Gasteins: Kirchenbau in Gastein [https://gastein-im-bild.info/gekirchg.html] [accessed 9 August 2023] notes and illustrates a holy-water stoup of a composite nature: a dodecagonal basin of reddish marble of 1520, mounted on a column of serpentine stone found in 1868 and re-purposed here; the shape of the pedestal is square with chamfered sides ["Die Weihbrunnschale in der mittleren Arkade bildet ein geschlungenes, zweifach mit Stab abgekehltes Zwölfeck aus buntscheckigen Marmor als Muschel. Die Schale stammt aus dem Jahre 1520. Die dabei befindliche Serpentinsäule wurde 1868 beim Einschlagen eines Gewölbes im Hause des Riemers Klausner gefunden."] [cf. BSI entry for Bad Hofgastein No. 1 for the baptismal font in the same church]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
47.171201,
13.107151
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
47° 10′ 16.33″ N,
13° 6′ 25.75″ E
UTM: 33T 356557 5225927
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble [basin only] -- seroentine [base only]
Number of Pieces: 2
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
