Amstetten

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Südostansicht der röm.-kath. Pfarrkirche St. Stephan in der niederösterreichischen Stadtgemeinde Amstetten. Eine spätgotische Kirche mit stark erhöhtem, von Seitenchören flankierten, lang gestrecktem Polygonalchor und eingestelltem romanischen Westturm."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.Stadler/Bwag, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 10 October 2018 by C.Stadler/Bwag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amstetten_-_Kirche_St._Stephan.JPG] [accesse 6 September 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: dodecagonal font of the 15thC [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 April 2011 by DerHHO [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_St._Stephan_Amstetten.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Josef Kepplinger [...] 1889 [...] Aufsatz des Taufbeckens in der Pfarrkirche Amstetten-St. Stephan"

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: ca. 1950

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1950 B&W photographphotograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the rim-buffet font cover removed from the font and placed on a stand at the back

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view of font cover

Scene Description: elaborate rim-buffet type of wooden cover; made in 1889 by the workshop of Josef Kepplinger [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 April 2011 by DerHHO [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_St._Stephan_Amstetten.jpg] [accessed 6 September 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24911AMS
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Stephan in Amstetten / Stadtpfarrkirche hl. Stephanus
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Kirchenstraße 16, 3300 Amstetten, Austria -- Tel.: +43 7472 62757
Country Name: Austria
Location: Niederösterreich
Directions to Site: Located off Landesstraße L6139a, S of highway E60, about 50 km ESE of Linz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Sankt Pölten
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: other such: Drosendorf, etc.
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: earlier church (late-13thC?) remains excavated 1975; modified 14thC; 2nd mid-15thC tower used as baptistery; modified 18th and 19thC
The Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfarrkirche_Amstetten-St._Stephan] [accessed 5 September 2023] notes a dodecagonal baptismal font of the 15th century in the baptistery ["Die Taufkapelle beherbergt einen zwölfseitigen Taufstein, der aus dem 15. Jahrhundert stammt"] [NB: Wikipedia entry gives Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Dehio Niederösterreich südlich der Donau 2003. Amstetten, Sakralbauten, Stadtpfarrkirche hl. Stephanus, S. 38–40 as source]. The font is dodecagonal from top to bottom, with slightly convex sides and moulded, somewhat similar to the font at Drosendorf, in the same area; a metal basin insert is in use. The tall and complex wooden rim-buffet type font cover bears multiple scenes, figures and symbols; it was made in 1889 by the workshop of Josef Kepplinger: "Dessen neugotischer Aufbau wurde 1892 ebenfalls von Josef Kepplinger geschaffen, trägt eine Darstellung des Sonntagberger Gnadenstuhls, der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit. Die Halbreliefs zeigen die biblischen Szenen der innen dargestellten Taufe Jesu sowie der Arche Noah und der Errettung am Schilfmeer, die außen angebracht sind. Die Bemalungen auf der Innenseite der Aufsatzflügel stammen von Ludwig Hase aus Linz und stellen zwei biblische Taufen dar".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.12353, 14.868831
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 7′ 24.71″ N, 14° 52′ 7.79″ E
UTM: 33U 490239 5330039

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (reddish)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal basin insert

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1889
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]