Zackwar / Zäckwar
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Results: 3 records
view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Zäckwar, einem Ortsteil von Lanitz-Hassel-Tal im Burgenlandkreis in Sachsen-Anhalt/Deutschland, Ansicht von Süden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zäckwar_Kirche_820.JPG] [accessed 9 November 2023]
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view of church exterior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Inschrift an der Kirche in Zäckwar" -- dating the start of the building to 1499, two days after Bonifatius (19 June)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jwaller, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2014 by Jwaller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zäckwar_Inschrift.JPG] [accessed 9 November 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Kirche Zäckwar (Gemeinde Lanitz-Hassel-Tal)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jwaller, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2014 by Jwaller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ZäckwarKirche1.JPG] [accessed 9 November 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 25046ZAC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche St. Bonifatius Zäckwar
Church Patron Saints: St. Boniface [aka Bonifatius, Winfrith]
Church Location: K2234 15, Zäckwar, 06628 Lanitz-Hassel-Tal, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Burgenlandkreis, Sachsen-Anhalt
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd87, about 15 km W of Naumburg, 55-60 km WSW of Leipzig; in the municipality of Lanitz-Hassel-Tal since 2009
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 11th - 13th 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: present church exterior has inscription documenting the start of the construction to June 1499; badly damaged by lightning in 1769; re-built, consecrated 1773;
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Pfarrbereich Eckartsberga und Umgebung [https://www.pfarreebg.de/willkommen-in-den-kirchengemeinden/spielberg-zaeckwar-benndorf/] [accessed 9 November 2023] mentions a round trough on a thick shaft from the first chapel, somehwre between 1050 and 1250 ["Wenn die Granzkörpertaufe (Taufstein) nach Bergner „ein roher, runder Trog auf dickem Schaft von der ersten Kapelle oder Kirche stammt, muss Zäckwar schon zur Zeit des romanischen Stils (1050 bis 1150 – Übergangszeit bis 1250) eine Kapelle gehabt haben"]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.136746, 11.634193
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 12.29″ N, 11° 38′ 3.1″ E
UTM: 32U 684283 5668331
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round