Kreuzlingen / Chruzlinge / Chrüzlinge / Crucelin / Crucelingen
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view of church exterior - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kreuzlingen (CH), Kirche Afra und Ulrich von Nordwesten."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Renardo la vulpo, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 16 November 2017 by Renardo la vulpo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuzlingen,_Afra%2BUlrich_von_Nordwesten,_4.jpeg] [accessed 22 October 2023]
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view of church exterior - northwest view - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church exterior in context
!["On 20.07.1963 at 2 o'clock in the night a fire broke out in the teachers' seminary. The fire spread to the adjoining, famous monastery church and destroyed it completely. The cause of the fire was welding work in the teachers' seminary. The church and the monastery buildings were faithfully reconstructed between 1963 and 1967" [https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/catalog/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/r/12082/viewmode=infoview] [accessed 22 October 2023]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1231022008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: "On 20.07.1963 at 2 o'clock in the night a fire broke out in the teachers' seminary. The fire spread to the adjoining, famous monastery church and destroyed it completely. The cause of the fire was welding work in the teachers' seminary. The church and the monastery buildings were faithfully reconstructed between 1963 and 1967" [https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/catalog/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/r/12082/viewmode=infoview] [accessed 22 October 2023]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Comet Photo AG (Zürich), 1963
Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken in July 1963 [ http://doi.org/10.3932/ethz-a-000024360] [accessed 22 October 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - painting - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of church interior - west end - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph 5 June 2023 by Colin Smith
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25001KRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche [formerly abbatial] St. Ulrich und St. Afra
Church Patron Saints: St. Ulrich & St. Afra
Church Location: Hauptstrasse 85, 8280 Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Kreuzlingen, Thurgau
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the Bd13, S of Konstanz Alstadt
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century, 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: abbey founded 1125; destroyed and re-built several times since; dissolved 1848 -- "On 20.07.1963 at 2 o'clock in the night a fire broke out in the teachers' seminary. The fire spread to the adjoining, famous monastery church and destroyed it completely. The cause of the fire was welding work in the teachers' seminary. The church and the monastery buildings were faithfully reconstructed between 1963 and 1967" [https://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch/catalog/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/r/12082/viewmode=infoview] [accessed 22 October 2023]
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font in this church is modern [NB: we have no information on the medieval font of the abbey church here].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.6457, 9.17855
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 38′ 44.52″ N, 9° 10′ 42.78″ E
UTM: 32T 513410 5276938