Birnau / Alt Birnau / Birnau am Bodensee / Nussdord / Nußdorf
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 November 2023)
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Entwurf zum Neubau der Wallfahrtskirche von Altbirnau; schwarze Feder über schwarzem Stift; koloriert auf gelblich grauem Papier; wahrscheinlich vor 1614."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a pre-1614 coloured drawing in the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altbirnau.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-Art (PD-old default) / PD-Art (PD-old-70)
view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: the present church was consecrated in 1747, and replaced the earlier one that was demolished in 1745
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 November 2023)
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Birnau ( Baden-Württemberg ). Wallfahrtskirche Maria Himmelfahrt ( 1750 ) - Innenraum" -- interior view of the present church, consecrated in 1747; replaced the earlier church demolished in 1745
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 22 March 2016 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Birnau_Wallfahrtskirche_-_Innenraum_1.jpg] [accessed 19 November 2023]
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view of object in context
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 7 June 2023 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 19 November 2023)
INFORMATION
FontID: 25090BIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Wallfahrtskirche Nußdorf nr. Birnau [demolished 1745]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates are for the new church] Birnau-Maurach 5, 88690 Uhldingen-Mühlhofen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Bodenseekreis, Baden-Württemberg
Directions to Site: The disappeared church stood on a hill E of Nußdorf, off the Bd31, a few kilometers from the location of the current church. The present church is off (S) the E54, 3-4 km NW of Uhldingen-Mühlhofen
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th - 18th century [basin only] [composite font?], Late Medieval [composite font?]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and object
Church Notes: The disappeared church originally of the late-9thC stood on a hill E of Nußdorf, a few kilometers from the location of the current church; much modified through the centuries; demolished in 1745 -- present church, Klosterkirche Birnau, was consecrated in 1747
Font Notes:
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An object of interest lies now outside the present Wallfahrtskirche Birnau built in 1747; it is used as a bird bath; it resembles a baptismal font and may have been originally used in the old pilgrim's church on a hill in nearby Nußdorf that was demolished in 1745; it does not look medieval and is certainly a composite object; the basin, perhaps, dating somewhere between the 16th and 18th centuries.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.746111, 9.219167
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 44′ 46″ N, 9° 13′ 9″
UTM: 32T 516429 5288105
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round