Merboltice / Bertendorf
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Kostel svaté Anny, Mírové náměstí, st. 1, Verneřice." -- the Verneřice church where the Merbolice font was moved ater the 1975 demolition
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 April 2022 by MartinVeselka [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verneřice_(Wernstadt)_-_kostel_sv._Anny_(duben_2022).jpg] [accessed 7 February 2025]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dobový snímek kostela svaté Kateřiny Alexandrijské se zvonicí v Merbolticích" -- showing the early-18thC church and its 16thC tower before the demolition of the church -but not the tower- in December 1975
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Image Source: digital image of an undated archive B&W photograph [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Merboltice_kostel.jpg] [accessed 7 February 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25821MER
Church/Chapel: Kostel svaté Kateřiny Alexandrijské (Merboltice) [demolished]
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine]
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates for the Merboltice site] Obec Merboltice, Merboltice 53, 405 02 Děčín 2, Czech Republic
Country Name: Czech Republic
Location: Děčín, Ústecký
Directions to Site: Located off road 24095, about 30 km ENE of Ústí nad Labem
Font Location in Church: now in Kostel svaté Anny in Verneřice
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century (early?), 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: church mentioned 1384; re-built 1708-1709; renovated 1896; disused 1950s; demolished with exception of the 16thC tower on 28 December 1975; church re-built 2001 as chapel
The entry for this church in zanikleobce.cz [http://www.zanikleobce.cz/index.php?lang=d&detail=1441371] [accessed 7 February 2025] reports a baptismal font of the early-16th century decorated with Gothic motifs ["Křtitelnice pocházela z 1. poloviny 16. století a byla zdobena pozdně gotickými motivy."] The entry for this church in the Czech Wikipedia [https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostel_svaté_Kateřiny_Alexandrijské_(Merboltice)] [accessed 7 February 2025] reports a stone baptismal font with late Gothic motifs from the first half of the 16th century preserved in the Church of Saint Anne in Verneřice.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.688901,
14.341619
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50°41′20.05″ N,
14°20′29.83″ E
UTM: 33U 453494 5615437
