Aufsess No. 2 / Aufseß
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coat of arms
![Source caption: Taufstein mit Hochrelieffiguren, Ritterkapelle in Schloss Unteraufseß, 16. Jh." [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: Source caption: Taufstein mit Hochrelieffiguren, Ritterkapelle in Schloss Unteraufseß, 16. Jh." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Familie der Freiherren von und zu Aufseß, 2029
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Sarah Fetzer [https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/24597/03_Fetzer.pdf?sequence=1] [accessed 1 January 2024]
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human figure - holding shield
Scene Description: a number of them, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Familie der Freiherren von und zu Aufseß, 2029
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Sarah Fetzer [https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/24597/03_Fetzer.pdf?sequence=1] [accessed 1 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Hauscapelle auf Burg Aufseß." -- showing the font in much the same location as it is today
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Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Ernst Keil's Die Gartenlaube: Illustrirtes Familienblatt (Leipzig, 1872, p. 809 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Gartenlaube_(1872)_b_809_1.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Einrichtung der Ritterkapelle in Schloss Unteraufseß, 2020." -- the moulded lower base is now almost totally built into the flooring
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Familie der Freiherren von und zu Aufseß, 2020
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Sarah Fetzer [https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/24597/03_Fetzer.pdf?sequence=1] [accessed 1 January 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25230AUF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ritterkapelle des Schlosses Unteraufseß
Church Location: Schloßberg 92, 91347 Aufseß, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the St2188-St2189 crossroads, 6-7 km ENE of Heiligenstadt, 8-9 SW of Hollfeld, 23 km E of Bamberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the castle chapel
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century
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 documenting it
Font Notes:
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Sarah Fetzer's Vom individuellen Gedächtnis zur repräsentativen Kulturgeschichte. Objektbedeutungen und Narrative in den Sammlungskonzeptionen des Hans von Aufseß vor 1857 [https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/18452/24597/03_Fetzer.pdf?sequence=1] [accessed 1 January 2024] notes and illustrates a baptismal font of the 16th century in the Ritterkapelle in the Schloss Unteraufseß, originally(?) from the castle chapel at Wüstenstein ; the font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with round arch-heads in which are anumber of worthies from Aufseß bearing shields charged with their coats or arms ["aus dem 16. Jahrhundert stammenden taufstein [...] aus der Schlosskirche in Wüstenstein – einem ehemaligen Familienstammsitz – zu überführen, den der Freiherr dort im Dezember 1835 entdeckt hatte.[...] Das Rundbecken zeigt auf den Außenseiten acht Aufseß’sche Ritter als Hochrelief, darunter Hans Valentin von Aufseß zu Wüstenstein (vor 1540–1592"]; the basin stands on a cylindrical pedestal base and a round moulded lower base, near the altar of the chapel.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.88306, 11.22788
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 52′ 59.02″ N, 11° 13′ 40.37″ E
UTM: 32U 660046 5528009