Chur No. 2 / Coira / Coire

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view of church exterior
view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vorderseite der Kathedrale St. Maria Himmelfahrt, Chur, Graubünden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Claus Ableiter, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2008 by Claus Ableiter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chur,_St._Maria_Himmelfahrt,_Vorderseite.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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view of church exterior - portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eingangsportal Kathedrale St. Maria Himmelfahrt Chur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christoph Wagener, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 18 May 2012 by Christoph Wagener [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eingangsportal_Kathedrale_St._Maria_Himmelfahrt_Chur.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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view of church exterior - portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Portal der Kathedrale St. Maria Himmelfahrt (Chur)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2019 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GB19ChurKathedrale03.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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view of church interior - chancel - retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hochaltar von Jakob Russ (Fertigstellung 1492) in der Kathedrale St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, Chur"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Whgler, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2016 by Whgler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochaltar_Chur_Kathedrale_St._Mariä_Himmelfahrt.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kathedrale St. Maria Himmelfahrt (Chur)"
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Image Source: digital photograph 2 August 2019 by Ziegler175 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GB19ChurKathedrale04.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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view of church interior - nave - north side - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kapitell: Fabelwesen mit Rundschild und Frau mit Apfel (Eva). Kathedrale Chur, Säule auf der Nordseite des Langhauses gegenüber der Kanzel. 1. Hälfte 13. Jahrhundert."
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Image Source: digital photograph 3 February 2024 by Oporinus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kapitell_Fabelwesen.jpg] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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view of church interior - nave - south side - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kapitell: oben wolfartiges Ungeheuer mit Drachenschwanz, unten Schlange zwischen zwei Löwen. Kathedrale Chur, Säule auf der Südseite des Langhauses bei der Kanzel. 1. Hälfte 13."
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view of church interior - north side - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ein Mann schwört zu fremden Göttern oder führt Gottes Namen unnütz im Munde. Kathedrale Chur, östliche Säule auf der Nordseite des Langhauses. 1. Hälfte 13. Jahrhundert."
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view of font cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chur, Hof: Kathedrale St. Mariä Himmelfahrt. Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Xavier de Jauréguiberry, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 25 August 2019 by Xavier de Jauréguiberry [https://www.flickr.com/photos/25831000@N08/49652467916] [accessed 18 August 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25665CHU
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Kathedrale St. Mariä Himmelfahrt zu Chur / Dompfarrei St. Mariä Himmelfahrt
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Hof 20, 7000 Chur, Switzerland
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Graubünden
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 3 [aka Grabenstrasse], on he N bank of the Plessurquai, in the medieval centre of Chur, 10-12 km S of Landquart
Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Chur
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 5th century, Early Christian
Church Notes: first church early-5thC; later church ca. 773; present building 1154-1270; dedicated to The Assumption in 1272; modified since; renovated 2001-2007
Font Notes:
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Christoph Simonett (1963) writes about the disappeared baptistery believed to have been located in the northeast corner of what is now the present church, the baptismal water being drawn from a close-by cistern; Simonett (ibid.) suggests that there was a baptismal font in it, probably of the sunken piscina type; however, although the cistern mentioned above and evidence of the baptistery have been found in excavations, there remains no trace of the actual font. Isabel Haupt [https://www.peristyle.ch/sites/default/files/uploads/n-spektakel-beim-tabernakel_7791.pdf] [accessed 18 August 2024] mentions two baptismal fonts in the cathedral of Chur: a 'historic' one at the west end of the north aisle, and a modern one of Laas marble at the east end of the south aisle, near the altar ["Im Ostjoch des südlichen Seitenschiffs vor der Laurentiuskapelle ist der neue Taufstein aus Laaser Marmor angeordnet, der damit zwar in die Nähe des Altars, jedoch nicht auf die gleiche Ebene wie dieser gestellt wurde. Der historische Taufstein wurde im Westjoch des Nordschiffes belassen"] [NB: unfortunately we have not been able to locate any other information on the 'historic' font -- this mey be the object mentioned in Georg Mörsch's Ein würdiger Ort für den Domschatz und ein Höhepunkt der kathedralrestaurierung , in Domschatz und Todesbilder, Sonderdruck aus Bündner Jahrbuch 2019 [https://www.bistum-chur.ch/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Domschatz_und_Todesbilder.pdf] [accessed 18 August 2024] as having been re-purposed as a holy-water stoup ["der alte Taufstein beim Haupteingang aber nicht etwa als funktionslos entfernt wurde, sondern jetzt als Weihwasserspender dient."]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.847778, 9.535278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 50′ 52″ N, 9° 32′ 7″ E
UTM: 32T 540810 5188388
REFERENCES
Simonett, Christoph, "Wo war das Baptisterium des Churer Domes? Ein Hinweis", 1963, Heft 1-2, Bündner Monatsblatt : Zeitschrift für Bündner Geschichte,
Landeskunde und Baukultur, 1963