 Beinstein, Sebastiankirche
The choir of the church was built in 1457, the nave in 1468-70, the main bell was cast in 1499, the tower followed in 1623. The protracted building by stages common enough.
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The linden shrouded clock face. Actually two clock faces at right angles. There is no clock in the opposite corner. The counter weight of the minute hand is in gecko red (standard counter weight camouflage on red clock faces). The edge on clock hand acount the corner is also visible.
The present day clock is radio controlled. The same digital age flows in all.
There is a small renovation plaque just below the clock. 1879.
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Commemorative Jonathan Deiniger plaque. The date 1879 matches the small renovation plaque beneath the clockface.
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single linden seed capsule with bracted stem on churchyard wall
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Leatherleaf Viburnum. Evergreen. No Biblical footprint (Prestor John import, actually China), but well suited for this kind of janitor duty.
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Dionysy Zweiffel epitaph from 1706. I somewhat doubt if the fit with the blessing fresco hand is natural. Very different styles. The border of the text cartouche overlaps the window frames.
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Stone epitaph for the mayor. Lapidarium in the tower base.
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plaster medallion, ceiling. Handshake with a winged caterer. Style might match popular Bible editions of the Metternich era.
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the horned victim of a cradle robbing incidence pointing his unerring finger into the future. Special space-time privilege. Minor attribute: Aesculap staff.
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an adult baptism at a slow flowing river
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a resurrection scene. The boneman bites the dust.
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the net ribbed choir
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The well balanced flower alter. Naturalistic rood. Nail position shifted halfway towards the wrist. (Keywords: in stigmata position or a transfixed metacarpus). The fixed rear view mirror of the organist throws a glint. Vestry door to the left.
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The choir frescoes are in a sorry state of preservation. Interpretation not always easy as it is. Basic question, Dante type purgatory or a verdant garden of paradise. Somewhat incongruent detail, the undershot watermill. Could be a soul processing device. A crowned head is turned back but some animal shape has crossed the barrier. The path might eventually lead to a Civitas Dei. - Remaining frescos somewhat too Virgin orientated for a Lutheran church.
[Cybele ante proscriptionem. - It has to be admitted that numerous parts of the scriptures call for unrelenting vigiliance against deviationism from the revealed truth. Any way to circumvent the 8th commandment.]
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familiar territory - color enhanced
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the stained glass window of the apse. Fairly universal post 60ties style with a few Chagall touches (liberal treatment of color).
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the baroque pulpit (best guess, could be older)
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The cobwebs in the baldachin will hardly go undetected. Never underestimate the keen eyed house keeper.
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"Memorial Book". Calligraphic labor of love by Wilhelm Holz, anno 1948. No sharp cut off point. Probably unrealistic to expect miracles. Things have gone pretty far if you have to scour the command headquarters for cleaning ladies to sign the capitulation papers. Surrealistic ceremonies first. Just a personal viewpoint.) - The whole book would amount to about four pages in telephone directory print.
The church chronic also reports an incident of 'near extinction'. The whole village being reduced to 16 people in 1638. Against 306 death entries in the two preceding years. Some nearby villages never recovered. Literally not a stone left.
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"Memorial book"
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war memorial
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war memorial
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Proximity of parish church to cemetery is no longer too common. Peripheral relocation nearly the rule. Without disparagement, Beinstein never attracted too much manufacturing attention. Somewhat comparable in this respect with Uhlbach. (The better known Stihls are located a few river bends further down.)
First impression as usual not completely correct. There exist an overflow cemetery across the street. But there are still free lots in the old one.
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well grounded
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grave with snowdrops. Backdrop, funeral parlor with glass skin porch.
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snowdrops
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to the left: last year's patch of Golden Rod [Solidago].
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a slice of shed. Unfavorable volume to surface ratio.
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Barn with half timbered superstructure. Door and window lintel with relieve arches. Both uncracked.
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Leatherleaf Arrowwood. Looks churchyard familiar.
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Half timbered superstructure with roof tile infills. Fairly common. Coco Cola bottles were also used ocassionally. (Textbook mentions only misfired pitchers.) Personal suggestion: how about junk mail.
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the partially boarded up window. Not sure about the ventilation tube. Somewhat inadequate for a methane infested cow stable.
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roof tile infill
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Forbidding looking East wall. Only the corner stones are fully dressed. Three ceramic isolators pinch hit as sundials.
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