St. Wolfgang bei Weitra / Pfaffenschlag
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coat of arms
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
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design element - patterns - torsade
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Wolfgang/ Weitra (Niederösterreich). Wallfahrtskirche St. Wolfgang - Apsis."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgand Sauber, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 27 May 2020 by Wolfgand Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weitra_St.Wolfgang_Wallfahrtskirche_1.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Wolfgang, Katastralgemeinde von Weitra in Niederösterreich, mit Pfarrkirche."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Herbert Ortner, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 28 August 2011 by Herbert Ortner [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Weitra_sankt_wolfgang.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Wolfgang/ Weitra ( Niederösterreich ). Wallfahrtskirche St. Wolfgang - Innenraum." -- the font is visible in the bottom-right corner of the image, the east end of the south aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgand Sauber, 2020
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche hl. Wolfgang, St. Wolfgang bei Weitra, Weitra, Niederösterreich - Taufstein (1514) im südlichen Seitenchor"
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Wolfgang (Spätgotik (1407) Taufbecken (gotisch, 1514)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HaSt, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2008 by HaSt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Wolfgang_bei_Weitra_-_Pfarrkirche_-_01.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24921WEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche hl. Wolfgang / Wallfahrtskirche St. Wolfgang in St. Wolfgang
Church Patron Saints: St. Wolfgang of Regensburg [aka Wolfgangus]
Church Location: St. Wolfgang 7, 3970 Weitra, Austria -- Tel.: +43 2856 2345
Country Name: Austria
Location: Niederösterreich
Directions to Site: St. Wolfgang is a hamlet in the municipality and 4 km SSW of Weitra, off local road L8304, just S of the Czech border
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Sankt Pölten
Historical Region: Waldviertel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, E end
Date: 1554
Century and Period: 15th century (mid)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
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: Gothic pilgrimage church consecrated 1407; disputed between a nobleman and the abbot of Zwettl in the 16th-17thC; modified late-17thC; became parochial 1765 [church visits by appointment only]
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Gedächtnis des Landes [https://www.gedaechtnisdeslandes.at/] [accessed 14 September 2023] notes that a Gothic baptismal font of 1514 was retained during the modifications made when the Protestant nobleman Christoph von Prag, lord of Engelstein castle, took over the church in the 16th century. The font, made of a reddish marble, consists of an octagonal basin with slightly concave sides, one of which is decorated with a shiled bearing a coat of arms that appears to contain two crescent moons; the base is a round torsade column with a moulded capital atop, a moulded lower base below; raised on a short square plinth. Low octagonal pyramidal font cover (metal?) with orb and chi-rho finial; modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.67148, 14.88176
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 40′ 17.33″ N, 14° 52′ 54.34″ E
UTM: 33U 491295 5390944
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (reddish)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]