Bennwil / Bämbel / Bendewilere

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Schönthal, Basel-Landschaft, Schweiz"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paebi, 2012

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 June 2012 by Paebi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schönthal_Westfassade.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche von Bennwil, Kanton Basel-Landschaft, Schweiz"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dietrich Michael Weidmann, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2011 by Dietrich Michael Weidmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennwil_preghejo_082.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kloster Schönthal BL, Schweiz"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Paebi, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2013 by Paebi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schönthal_BL01.JPG] [accessed 11 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchgemiende Bennwil, Hölstein, Lampenberg, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchgemiende Bennwil, Hölstein, Lampenberg [https://www.ref-behoela.ch/kirche-bennwil/] [accessed 11 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

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Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the nave, opposite the pulpit, in front of the organ

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Orgelverzeignis Schweiz und Liechtenstein, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph in Orgelverzeignis Schweiz und Liechtenstein [http://peter-fasler.magix.net/public/BLProfile/bl_bennwil_ref.htm] [accessed 11 August 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font from Kloster Schönthal? [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the old font from Kloster Schönthal(?) in the vicarage garden at Bennwil [cf. FontNotes]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24890BEN
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche Bennwil / Reformierte Kirche St. Martin, Bennwil
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Dorfstrasse 1, 4431 Bennwil, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 61 951 20 27
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Basel-Lanschaft
Directions to Site: Located between roads 12 (W) and 2 (E), 10 km S of Liestal, 25-30 km SE of Basel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
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 here may have been a Carolingian chapel; Bennwil church first mentioned 1189 as a donation to the Benedictine monastery of Schönthal; destroyed by fire 1617; re-built 1670
There appear to be two baptismal fonts in this church; photographic evidence [cf. ImagesArea] shows an old stone font relegated to the vicarage garden at the time; it is roughly bucket-shaped, with a moulding at the lower end of the underbowl, on a square base. The font appears to have been moved back into the church, and is now located opposite the pulpit, in font of the organ [NB: the organ is located at the east end of the nave]. The entry for this church in Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bennwil] [accessed 11 August 2023] notes a 15th-century brass baptismal font in this church, originally from the monastery of Schönthal ["Messingenes Taufbecken (15. Jahrhundert) aus dem Kloster Schönt[h]al"]. A reference to a 500-year old font from the monastery being at Bennwil makes no mention of it being of metal at all, least of being made of brass ["Vom Kloster Schönthal wurden bereits im 12. Jahrhundert in der Umgebung mehrere Rodungshöfe errichtet - Wald, Chilchzimmer und Spittel. Auch Holzschlag und Eisenerz trugen zum Einkommen des Klosters bei. Die Froburger schenkten ihm zudem das Dorf Bennwil, wo nun das über 500jährige Taufbecken des Klosters zu finden ist."] [NB: the sources above do not seem agree or make sense; a "Messingenes Taufbecken (15. Jahrhundert)" sounds wrong, brass not being a usual metal on fonts at the time; is the stone font the one that was moved from the old monastery to Binnwil? It could have been moved when the monastery was vandalised in 1525 on ended up in a local farm, to end up eventually in Bennwil]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.40259, 7.78007
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 24′ 9.32″ N, 7° 46′ 48.25″ E
UTM: 32T 407954 5250625