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Tübingen - Altstadt - Stiftskirche - Chorraum - Chorscheitelfenster unten
Taken on 6 August 2019, 16:14:28
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Self-photographed
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Tübingen, Germany, St. George’s Collegiate Church: The lower part of the central window in the apse, showing the church patron and the founder, created about 1478 by Peter Hemmel of Andlau.
On the left, Eberhard I (1445–1496), from 1495 the first duke of Württemberg and Teck, founder of the University of Tübingen, who also commanded the expansion of the choir of the Collegiate Church because it also served as the great hall of the new university; around Eberhard there are palm tress which, together with the motto Attempto (“I dare”), adorned Eberhard’s coat of arms. His shield is shown reversed for w:heraldic courtesy (he faces his wife and her paternal shield) that on the banner of his companion being shown unaltered
The second part shows Saint George, the church patron, killing the dragon.
The identity of the man in the third part is unclear; his standard shows the coat of arms of Württemberg and the County of Montbéliard, on his his shield the coat of arms of Tübingen.
At the right, ??
Hint: The frame of the window is not completely orthogonal in reality, but somewhat curved, this is not a problem of the photograph ;–).
