Bayreuth

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit Bayreuth" -- one of the eight alabaster panels from 1615 used to construct the present font [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Z thomas, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2020 by Z thomas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Bayreuth_2020-10-13_4.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit Bayreuth" -- one of the eight alabaster panels from 1615 used to construct the present font -- this one showing the Deluge [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2022 by DALIBRI [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig_Dreifaltigkeit_-_Bayreuth_048.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bayreuth, Kirchplatz 1, Evang.-Luth. Stadtpfarrkirche"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 June 2017 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bayreuth,_Kirchplatz_1,_Evang.-Luth._Stadtpfarrkirche_20170603_009.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Bayreuth"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roehrensee, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2015 by Roehrensee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Bayreuth_P1040687.JPG] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit Bayreuth" -- showing the font in the foreground

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Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2022 by DALIBRI [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig_Dreifaltigkeit_-_Bayreuth_075.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit Bayreuth, Taufstein" -- showing a baptism scene in the centre panel

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Image Source: digital image of a 12 November 1995 photograph by Bayreuth2009 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Taufstein_12.11.1995.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bayreuth, Kirchplatz 1, Evang.-Luth. Stadtpfarrkirche"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2017

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 3 June 2017 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bayreuth,_Kirchplatz_1,_Evang.-Luth._Stadtpfarrkirche_20170603_005.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Heilig Dreifaltigkeit - Bayreuth" -- notice the little chalice collecting the blood below the scene

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Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2022 by DALIBRI [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig_Dreifaltigkeit_-_Bayreuth_045.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Heilig Dreifaltigkeit - Bayreuth"

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Heilig Dreifaltigkeit - Bayreuth"

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit Bayreuth"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Z thomas, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 13 October 2020 by Z thomas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Bayreuth_2020-10-13_9.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bayreuth, Kirchplatz 1, Evang.-Luth. Stadtpfarrkirche"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 3 June 2017 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bayreuth,_Kirchplatz_1,_Evang.-Luth._Stadtpfarrkirche_20170603_006.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit Bayreuth"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Z thomas, 2020

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 October 2020 by Z thomas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Bayreuth_2020-10-13_3.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Heilig Dreifaltigkeit - Bayreuth"

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Image Source: digital photograph 19 October 2022 by DALIBRI [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig_Dreifaltigkeit_-_Bayreuth_044.jpg] [accessed 15 January 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25267BAY
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Stadtpfarrkirche Heilig Dreifaltigkeit in Bayreuth
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Church Location: Kirchpl. 1, 95444 Bayreuth, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located in the city centre, in the confluence of state roads 2, 22 and 85, 65-70 km NE of Nuremberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 17th century(early) [parts only], Baroque [composite font]
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: first church here mentioned 1194 (only a few remains survive now beneath the north tower); destroyed 1430; re-built 1437-1495; second tower completed 1529;damaged by fire in 1605; restored and consecrated to the Holy Trinity in 1614; renovated mid-19thC; restored and renovated 20th and 21stC
The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilig_Dreifaltigkeit_(Bayreuth)] [accessed 15 January 2024] reports a neo-Gothic baptismal font in it ["ein neugotischer Taufstein"] on which eight alabaster motifs originally from 1615 were integrated by Nuremberg sculptor Hans Werener ["Bei Letzterem wurden acht Alabaster-Reliefs von 1615 mitverwendet"]. [NB: the eight alabaster panels, which contain biblical and sacramental scenes, are not known to have been originally part of a font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.943194, 11.574599
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 56′ 35.5″ N, 11° 34′ 28.55″ E
UTM: 32U 684721 5535492