Wetter / Stift Wetter
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Results: 9 records
animal - mammal - unidentified - head - 6
Scene Description: lion? / bear? / dog?
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 June 2013 by Wikisassonia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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design element - architectural - column - with capitals and bases - 6
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 June 2013 by Wikisassonia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikisassonia, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 June 2013 by Wikisassonia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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design element - motifs - scroll
Scene Description: multiple scrolls all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikisassonia, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 June 2013 by Wikisassonia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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view of church exterior - northwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Stiftskirche in Wetter (Hessen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hydro, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 22 October 2013 by Hydro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_(04).jpg] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Stiftskirche in Wetter (Hessen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hydro, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 22 October 2013 by Hydro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_(02).jpg] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
![Source caption: "Wetter (Kreis Marburg), Stadtansicht von Norden [...] Topographia Germaniae (i), Topogr. Hassiae et Regionum Vicinarum, Frankfurt 1655, Tf. nach S. 138"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0240303030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Wetter (Kreis Marburg), Stadtansicht von Norden [...] Topographia Germaniae (i), Topogr. Hassiae et Regionum Vicinarum, Frankfurt 1655, Tf. nach S. 138"
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Image Source: digital image of a 1655 engraving by Matthäus Merian in the Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 32059825 [accessed 3 March 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Stiftskirche in Wetter, innen. Blick von der Orgel-Empore im Westen aufs Mittelschiff in Richtung Osten."
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Image Source: digital photograph 11 June 2013 by Wikisassonia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_Innen_2.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken der Stiftskirche Wetter"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wikisassonia, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 June 2013 by Wikisassonia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Wetter_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25366WET
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Maria, heute evangelisch-lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Marien
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Klosterberg 1, 35083 Wetter (Hessen), Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off the L3381, E of the Bd252, about 15 km NNW of Marburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Wetter [https://www.kirchspiel-wetter.de/kirchspiel/stiftskirche/kirchenrundgang/klassischer-rundgang/der-taufstein/] [accessed 3 March 2024] as a baptismal font of the 13th century with six lion heads at the base ["Der Taufstein [...] aus dem 13. Jahrhundert hat die Form eines wuchtigen romanischen Kelches, aus ihm wurden früher die Kinder aus der Taufe gehoben. Sechs kleine Säulen geben dem Becken zusätzlichen Halt; die Löwenköpfe bewachen sozusagen das Taufbecken"].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.901236, 8.723934
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 4.45″ N, 8° 43′ 26.16″ E
UTM: 32U 480588 5638878
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and flat with modern handle