Aplerbeck / Aplerbeck nr. Dortmund

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Joseph's Sorrow and First Dream

Scene Description: a common conflation of the Nativity and Joseph's dream

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Joseph's Sorrow and First Dream of Joseph

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Joseph's Sorrow and First Dream of Joseph - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger - animals above - Joseph sitting in a chair - wearing Jew hat

Scene Description: a common conflation of the Nativity and Joseph's dream

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - detail

Scene Description: showing the state of the upper rim area and some of the detail of the decoration on the capitals and spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Baptism of Christ in a font

Scene Description: the 'thing' above Christ's head is the Holy Ghost

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Baptism of Christ in a font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: four soldiers wearing Jew's hats are busily hammering nails into Christ's extremities; on the left is the First Bath scene; on the right is the Massacre of the Innocent scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Scene Description: Herod seated at the right end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - detail

Scene Description: interesting representation: a soldier appears to offer Herod a swathed baby; a seated Herod offers the soldier a sword holding it by the pointed tip

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - detail

Scene Description: this soldier is probably the same that was offered the sword by Herod, now busily carrying out the king's order

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: only the tail end of the scene is visible here, on the left

Image Source: edited image from a photograph in RuhrNachrichten [www.ruhrnachrichten.de/staedte/dortmund/Ein-Taufstein-aus-alter-Zeit;art2575,1136273] [accessed 19 December 2013]

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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - detail

Scene Description: a pilgrim (?) shows the arriving Magi (left) to the Nativity (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - detail

Scene Description: a pilgrim (?) shows the arriving Magi (left) to the Nativity (right)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

date

Scene Description: date of the replacement lower base is black lettering below the Massacre of the Innocet scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: columns only where the scenes being and end; all the other arch-heads lack support

Image Source: edited image from a photograph in RuhrNachrichten [www.ruhrnachrichten.de/staedte/dortmund/Ein-Taufstein-aus-alter-Zeit;art2575,1136273] [accessed 19 December 2013]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - detail

Scene Description: this column between the Arrival/Adoration of the Magi and the Nativity

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: two parallel rows

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: of varied types, in all the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: between two rows of beads

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing some of the damaged upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the area above the Nativity scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing the area above the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: of the plaster copy of the old font that is stored in the upper west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: of the plaster copy of the old font that is stored in the upper west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of basin - upper view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north façade - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Scene Description: WWII memorial

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view - tombstone

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2005 by Itti [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Aplerbeck_Kirche_St_Georg.jpg] [accessed 18 December 2013]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: trompe-l'oeil effect makes the cross in the centre look like a human face

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior

Image Source: non recorded photograph ca. 1890? reproduced in www.cw-john.de/FOERDERVEREIN/kalender/Umbruch_Georgskirche.pdf [accessed 19 December 2013]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: view from the upper west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: showing the First Bath of Christ in the centre

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: it is not really a cover, nor is it the usual support used in northern areas to support the baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: a plaster copy of the old font is stored in the upper west gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

view of stoup - basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 October 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00093APL

Museum and Inventory Number: [NB: the font was for a time at the Museum Ostwall [formerly Museum am Ostwall] in Dortmund]

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Große Kirche St. Georg [aka Georgskirche]

Church Patron Saints: St. George

Church Location: Märtmannstraße 13, Aplerbeck, 44287 Dortmund, Germany -- Tel.: +49 231 22226911

Country Name: Germany

Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off (NE) the 1-236 crossroads, in the centre-east area of the Stadtgebiet, ESE of Dortmund city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Essen

Historical Region: Ruhrhöhen -- Ruhrgebiet -- Preußen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, N side, to the left of the altar

Century and Period: 12th century (mid? / late?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Westphalian cylinder font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the organist at Georgskirche for his music and kind help in our visit

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Nordström (1984) refers to a representation of the Baptism of Christ on the side of this font. Described and Illustrated in Bolege-Vieweg (1998) as a tub-shaped cylindrical baptismal font of the 12th century. Noted in Drake (2002) as one of a group of Westphalian cylinder fonts, a sub-group of which have figures beneath a Lombard frieze (sub-group B3) [the fonts listed in this sub-group are: Aplerbeck, Bochum, Bramsche, Hagen, Lippoldsberg, Rastede]. The upper side of the basin, just below the rim, is ornamented with a band of palmette motif between two parallel dotted lines; below this, an arcade of round arches without supports; under the arcade are contained seven scenes, five of which relate to events in the life of Christ (Nativity, Baptism of Christ in a font, Crucifixion, Massacre of the Innocents and Adoration of the Magi [order a/p source cited]). One of the upper sides of the rim appears damaged. The font, like many others in the area, has been fitted with a grid-like cover of cast-iron (?) and raised on short round base, both modern. The RuhrNachrichten [www.ruhrnachrichten.de/staedte/dortmund/Ein-Taufstein-aus-alter-Zeit;art2575,1136273] [accessed 19 December 2013] notes that at the end of the 19th century the font was removed to a museum in Dortmund, and then to Cappenberg for the duration of WWII; it was located at the entrance of the Museum am Ostwall [now Museum Ostwall] where it served as an ashtray; it was brought back to its original church in 1980; it had originally been located beneath the tower of Georgskirche, which served as baptistery, but the restoration of the church made that the main entrance, and the font was re-located to an apse at the east end, near the altar. The original basin has been raised on a simple round moulded lower base. On-site notes: cylindrical font of stone decorated with scenes from the life of Christ cycle; the upper rim has large areas of damage; the lower base was replaced in 1982, a date painted on it in black lettering. There is no cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.493494, 7.561578

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 29′ 36.58″ N, 7° 33′ 41.68″ E

UTM: 32U 400143 5705687

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 12 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 64-65 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 88 cm

Basin Depth: 50 cm

Basin Total Height: 65-66 cm

Height of Base: 20 cm [modern]

Font Height (less Plinth): 86 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Bolege-Vieweg, Dore, Dortmunder Dorfkirchen: Schätze mittelalterlicher Kunst, Dortmund: Ruhfus, 1998

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984