Liebenberg / Lybenberch

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: "Die Sebastiankapelle ist wahrscheinlich das älteste, als Gesamtheit erhaltene Gebäude der Gemeinde, mit romanischem Baukern [...] Mitte der 15. Jahrhunderts war Liebenberg Pfarrort, die jetzige Kapelle also Pfarrkirche."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helmuth Mayhofer, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Helmuth Mayrhofer [accessed 12 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: "Die Sebastiankapelle ist wahrscheinlich das älteste, als Gesamtheit erhaltene Gebäude der Gemeinde, mit romanischem Baukern [...] Mitte der 15. Jahrhunderts war Liebenberg Pfarrort, die jetzige Kapelle also Pfarrkirche."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helmuth Mayhofer, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Helmuth Mayrhofer [accessed 12 September 2023]
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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: "Die Sebastiankapelle ist wahrscheinlich das älteste, als Gesamtheit erhaltene Gebäude der Gemeinde, mit romanischem Baukern [...] Mitte der 15. Jahrhunderts war Liebenberg Pfarrort, die jetzige Kapelle also Pfarrkirche."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helmuth Mayhofer, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by Helmuth Mayrhofer [accessed 12 September 2023]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

INFORMATION

Font ID: 24917LIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Römisch-katholische Kapelle hl. Sebastian in Liebenberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Sebastian
Church Notes: parish existed from the 12thC to the Reformation; dedicated to St. John the Evangelist since 1484, when it was a parish church; reonvated 2018
Church Address: Liebenberg, 3814 Liebenberg, Austria
Site Location: Niederösterreich, Austria, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the L8049, near the ruins of the medieval castle, 15 km W of Waidhofen an der Thaya, just S of the Czech border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Sankt Pölten
Additional Comments: painted font / composite font? [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
A baptismal font of the the 14th century now painted white in the Kapelle zum hl. Sebastian is noted in the Gerichtsbezirk Raabs (p. 50-51) [https://diglib.tugraz.at/] [accessed 12 September 2023] ["Taufbecken : Stein, weiß gestrichen. Über quadratischer Basis mit Taufbecken Wulst und Eckknollen runder Fuß und runde Schale mit oben skulpiertem Wulst. XIV. Jh."]. The Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapelle_Liebenberg[ [accessed 11 September 2023] reports a round baptismal font of the Romanesque period, on a column and a 13th-century bulbous base ["Es gibt einen romanischen runden Taufstein auf einem Säulenstumpf über einer Eckknollenbasis aus dem 13. Jahrhundert"] [the Wikipedia entry gives Liebenberg, Kapelle hl. Sebastian, In: Die Kunstdenkmäler Österreichs. Dehio Niederösterreich nördlich der Donau 1990. S. 672, as source]. [NB: the date assigned to the font may be questioned, as it appears the whole is made up from spolia of different periods].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

COORDINATES

UTM: 33U 533534 5405998
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.80607, 15.45671
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 48′ 21.85″ N, 15° 27′ 24.16″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round