Epitaph 3

IM IOR 1572 DEN 2

SEPTE IST IN GOT SELI=

ENT SCHLAFFEN DER

ERBARE ELIAS HILISCH=

ER VND HERNACH IM 89

IORE DEN 19. IVNY DER

ERBARE GEORGI HILISCH=

ER GEBRIDER LIGEN

ALHIER BEGRABEN WAR=

TEN AUF DIE ZUKUNF=.

CHRISTI SAMT ALLEN

AUSERWELTEN

EH    GH

In the year 1572, on 2^nd

September in God blissfully

fell asleep forever

noble Elias Hilischer

And after him in the year [15]89

On 19^th June

Noble Goerg Hilischer.

The brothers rest here buried

Waiting for the Christ

To come with all his

chosen ones 

EH   GH

Text of the inscription is carved in majuscule with convex letters. Under the inscription are initials of both the deceased divided with unidentified symbol – perhaps a Greek letter Ω – symbol of the beginning and the end (symbol of God), and rays emerging from it.

Location:

West side of the church, to the right from the southern aisle entrance. Rectangular sandstone plaque, currently mounted in the church wall with cement. Brothers Elias and Georg Hilischer were probably from a Hilscher merchants family, with spelling of their last name slightly changed.

Edited by Ivo Łaborewicz

Translated by Agnieszka Krzysztoń