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This piece is a stained glass panel 9" x 10". Found by clients' 5th Great Grandmother ~1650 CE, at a war damaged church in the Cologne region of Germany. I need assistance with the translation.

_ uinen ? ( _ urgen) * __________
mit dit glas

Ad 1572 ?

Thank You!

 

Calling @Fid

Oh, and cool piece!

 

Impressive, Cris. Cologne was one of the first cities to use images in stained glass, instead of images made of separate pieces of plain and coloured glass. By 1572 the glass painters in the Low Countries and adjoining regions were extremely accomplished.

'dit glas' is either Dutch or Kölsch, the Cologne dialect, which is very much like Dutch. It means 'this glass'. The first word looks like the name Jürgen, probably the painter of the glass.
I can't make out the rest, maybe a dark background will help?

 

The mark in the cartouche at the top could be Jürgen's master mark.

 

Suspect at the time there was not a language distinction between the material glass & a glass pane in a window, so 'this glass' could be 'this window' & Jurgen may have been the person who paid for & donated this expensive gift.

 

True. The most famous Dutch stained glass windows are called the 'Goudse Glazen', the Gouda Glasses, also 16th century. And you are right, Jürgen was probably the donor.

 

My feeble transcription attempt ended with google informing me "the jerks overturned this glass"...

I do think it's (maybe) 1579 instead of 1572.

 

What did you enter? Maybe I can make something of it, since it looks to be either Kölsch or Dutch. Both are very familiar to me.
I can't promise my English translation won't be the same as google's though.

 

Figured out some more: Jürgen .... gift dit glas.
Geez, Jürgen could have come from my town, that is our dialect. We are an archaic lot, fit for Antiquers.
Anyway, @Bronwen was right, our Jürgen donated the window.

 

jŭrgen omltŭten
dit glas

 

My translation would be slightly less confrontational: Jürgen threw this glass over.

I think the o is a d, and probably the first letter of his surname, or possibly his profession or function in the town or a guild or something. No doubt he was an important man.

 

I don't know if this helps at all.

 

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omhuten??

 

I don't see enough in these pics, sorry.
very unclear to me who safed it or if client had 5 grandmothers...
the place found and year would be the important references to research where a church in what war was destroyed.

 

???? What ???

 

póg mo thóin

 

does anyone have a proof that Jürgen with Umlaut was in use in the supposed year ? in and around Cologne it's Schorsch or Jörres.
Jürgen came into use in the mid-1800s officially.
good night.

 

If it matters, as best I can tell, its Jŭrgen (breve) and not Jürgen (umlaut).

If that is an unimportant distinction, please forgive my monoglot self.

 

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