Riffian / Rifiano
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view of basin
Scene Description: Source caption: "Riffian : Taufstein in der Pfarrkirche"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Amt für Film und Medien, Autonome Provinz Bozen-Südtirol, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph [33-S06-05] by Karl Spornbeger in the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche zur Schmerzhaften Muttergottes in Riffian"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ManfredK, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 5 May 2013 by ManfredK [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Riffian_Pfarrkirche_von_Osten.jpg] [accessed 29 September 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25733RIF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche zur Schmerzhaften Muttergottes
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary
Church Location: Via della Chiesa, 24, Riffian / Rifiano, BZ, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0473 241035
Country Name: Italy
Location: Bozen, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road SS44, about 35 km NNW of Bozen
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Bolzano-Brixen
Date: [ca. 1390?]
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Gothic
Church Notes: 12thC pilgrimage church; re-built 1368; extended 1645; re-built 1671;
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of white marble in the late-14th century, noted in Burggrafenamt Südtirol [https://burggrafenamt-direkt.com/gemeinden/81-riffian.html] [accessed 29 September 2024]: "Auch der Taufstein in der Kirche sollte eine besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt bekommen. Dieser stammt aus dem Ende des 14. Jahrhunderts, besteht aus wertvollem weißem Marmor und zählt zu den symbolträchtigsten Taufsteinen von ganz Tirol." The entry for this church in Riffian & Kues bei Meran [https://www.riffian.com/de-kircheriffian.php] [accessed 29 September 2024] describes the font as made of marble ca.1490, the basin decorated with Adam and Eve, a woman and two men with lions: "der Taufstein aus der Zeit um 1400, eine marmorne Schale mit Strickornament und Skulpturen (Adam, Eva, eine Frau und zwei Männer mit Löwen)"
pentagonal font of ca.1390; wooden cover of 1910
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.707545, 11.182948
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 42′ 27.16″ N, 11° 10′ 58.61″ E
UTM: 32T 666861 5174980
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1910
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: conical shape; deeply carved all over