Mesto Libava / Liebau / Město Libavá
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view of church exterior - southeast end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kostel Povýšení svatého Kříže, 9. května, Město Libavá, okres Olomouc / Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Město Libavá, Olomouc District, Czech Republic"
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Image Source: digital photograph 15 August 2019 by Harold [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Město_Libavá,_kostel_Povýšení_sv._Kříže_(2019-08-15;_07).jpg] [accessed 1February 2025]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kostel Povýšení svatého Kříže, 9. května, Město Libavá, okres Olomouc / Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Město Libavá, Olomouc District, Czech Republic"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harold, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 15 August 2019 by Harold [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Město_Libavá,_kostel_Povýšení_sv._Kříže_(2019-08-15;_03).jpg] [accessed 1February 2025]
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view of font and cover in context
![Source caption: "Město Libavá, farní kostel, křtitelnice 1930" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0250201034_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Město Libavá, farní kostel, křtitelnice 1930" [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of a 1930 B&W photograph by Igor Hendrych, in zanikleobce.cz [http://www.zanikleobce.cz/index.php?detail=280162] [accessed 1 February 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25813LIB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Kostel Povýšení svatého Kříže
Church Patron Saints: Holy Cross
Church Location: 9. května, 785 01 VVP Libavá-Šternberk 1, Czech Republic
Country Name: Czech Republic
Location: Olomoucký kraj
Directions to Site: Located off road 440, in the municipality and about 12 km SSE of Moravský Beroun, about 30 km NE of Olomouc
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Olomouc
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century (?), Late Gothic?
Church Notes: fortified wooden church documented 1528 and 1541; demolished after 1659; new church completed 1662/1666; repaired and re-built early 10thC; destroyed by fire 1817; restored late 1830s; ceased cult in 1950 and became military warehouse; church opened to the public in 2005
Font Notes:
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A baptismal of the most daring(?) design is shown in a 1930 B&W photograph of the interior of this church in zanikleobce.cz [http://www.zanikleobce.cz/index.php?detail=280162] [accessed 1 February 2025]: the font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin that appears to be caught in the upper branches of a fruit tree, itself constituting the pedestal base and standing in a spherical lower base circled by a large serpent; the whole rests on a cushion-like moulded lower base and a short and small square plain marble plinth. The font cover matches the exoticism of the font with a large sculptural finial. It may belong to one of two restorations of the church, more likely to the one in the 1830s.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.721554, 17.520332
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 43′ 17.59″ N, 17° 31′ 13.19″ E
UTM: 33U 681656 5510722