Schweiggers

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Results: 7 records
animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4
devil(s) and demons - head - 4
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kath. Pfarrkirche hl. Ägydius und Friedhof in Schweiggers"
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Image Source: digital photograph 25 March 2012 by Duke of W4 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfarrkirche_hl._Ägydius_und_Friedhof_in_Schweiggers.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche hl. Ägydius, Schweiggers, Niederösterreich - Orgelempore"
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2017 by BSonne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schweiggers_Pfarrkirche07.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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view of church interior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche hl. Ägydius, Schweiggers, Niederösterreich - Innenansicht" -- the medieval font is partially visible behind a pillar, to the left of the pulpit
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view of church interior - pulpit
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche hl. Ägydius, Schweiggers, Niederösterreich - Rokoko-Kanzel um 1770" -- the medieval font is partially visible in the bottom-left corner of the image
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2017 by BSonne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schweiggers_Pfarrkirche10.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche hl. Ägydius, Schweiggers, Niederösterreich - romanischer Taufstein (2. Hälfte 12. Jh.)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2017 by BSonne [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schweiggers_Pfarrkirche14.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24922SCH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche hl. Ägydius / Ägyd, Schweiggers
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: Hauptpl. 77, 3931 Schweiggers, Austria
Country Name: Austria
Location: Niederösterreich
Directions to Site: Located at the confluence of local roads L8150, L8242, L8243, L8239, L69, about 10 km NW of Zwettl
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, N aisle, E end
Date: ca. 1180-1200?
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque
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: church documented 1157; modified 1430; burned down by the Hussites in the early 15thC; restored and modified since
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Gedächtnis des Landes [https://www.gedaechtnisdeslandes.at/] [accessed 14 September 2023] reports a Romanesque baptismal font in this church, a large basin resting on four lions with demon heads below ["Aus romanischer Zeit stammt das einzigartige romanische Taufbecken (1180/1200): eine wuchtige Halbkugelschale, die auf vier stilisierten Löwen ruht, unter denen sich kleine Dämonenköpfe befinden"]. The entry for this church in Marktgemeinde Schweiggers [https://www.schweiggers.gv.at/Spaetromanischer_Taufstein] [accessed 14 September 2023] reports a baptismal font made of local granite ca. 1180, a dodecagonal basin with a rounded underbowl raised on a round-to-square squat base decorated with lion protomes and and demonic heads ["Das kunsthistorisch wertvollste Objekt in der Marktgemeinde ist das in Österreich einzigartige romanische Taufbecken aus der Zeit um 1180. Es ist aus heimischem Granit gehauen und bildet eine wuchtige, in ein Zwölfeck übergehende Halbkugelschale, die auf vier stilisierten Löwenköpfen ruht. Unter ihnen sind kleinere Dämonenköpfe sichtbar"] [accessed 14 September 2023]. The metal font cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.668737, 15.062156
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 40′ 7.45″ N, 15° 3′ 43.76″ E
UTM: 33U 504576 5390634
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: metal low-dome decorated and inscribed; orb-and-cross finial; modern