Kurivody / Hühnerwasser / Kuřivody

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kostel Povýšení svatého kříže ve městě Bělá pod Bezdězem, okres Mladá Boleslav / Feast of the Cross Church in the town of Bělá pod Bezdězem, Mladá Boleslav District, Czech Republic" -- the receiving church for the ca. 1500 baptismal font originally from Kuřivody [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jitka Erbenová, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph 16 July 2010 by Jitka Erbenová [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bělá_pod_Bezdězem_-_kostel_Povýšení_sv._kříže.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2025]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kuřívody kostel sv. Havla"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © VitVit, 2016

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 March 2016 by VitVit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kuřívody_kostel_sv._Havla_2a.jpg] [accessed 3 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25816KUR
Church/Chapel: Kostel Povýšení svatého Kříže in Bělá pod Bezdězem / Weißwasser
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the originating church] Kuřívody 700, 471 24 Ralsko-Mimoň, Czech Republic
Country Name: Czech Republic
Location: Česká Lípa, Liberecký kraj
Directions to Site: Located off road 268, 25-30 km NNW of Mladá Boleslav
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Litoměřice
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1500
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century (?), Late Gothic
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: 13thC church; later re-built and tower added; dedicated to St. Gall; medieval paintings discovered 2011
The entry for this church in zanikleobce.cz [http://www.zanikleobce.cz/index.php?detail=1136630] [accessed 5 February 2025] mentions the church, an early Gothic building renovated later and with a tower added at the time, the stone baptismal font of which was later moved to the church at Kostel Povýšení svatého Kříže in Bělá pod Bezdězem / Weißwasser. The entry for the Kostel Povýšení svatého Kříže (Bělá pod Bezdězem) in the Czech Wikipedia [https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostel_Povýšení_svatého_Kříže_(Bělá_pod_Bezdězem)] [accessed 3 February 2025] reports that the ca. 1500 baptismal font in it was originally from Kuřívod ["Křtitelnice je kamenná, pozdně gotická, z období kolem roku 1500, stojící na tordovaném (šroubovitém) sloupku."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.585, 14.8039
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50°35′6″ N, 14°48′14.04″ E
UTM: 33U 5603695 486117

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone