Bochum No. 1 / Baukem / Bochum-Wattenscheid / Cofbuokheim / Wattenscheid

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan

Scene Description: very schematic; both figures haloed

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell?

Scene Description: a very schematic representation of the scene: a figure stands with right hand raised, left hand carrying a flag on a processional cross [the upper end above the figure's head is damaged but the arms of the cross are still visible here; it takes a forgiving eye and some faith to identify the lower folds as souls]

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Christ child lying on the manger

Scene Description: all figures, even the animals, are haloed; Joseph appears to be missing

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: all figures haloed; very schematic

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: one of the two original lions of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: one of the two original lions of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: the one on the left appears to be original, the one on the right is a modern replacement; the plinth is modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: one of the two original lions of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: a modern replacement lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: one of the origimal lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome

Scene Description: one of the original lions

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - protome - 4

Scene Description: Four beasts on the base; these two appear to be original; two others are modern replacements

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 January 2008 by HJW [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bochum_Wattenscheid_080114_028_00.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 19 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - apse - window

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - monument - detail

Scene Description: Stunning iconography on this painted tombstone dated 1547

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 May 2009 by Dontpanic [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_gertrud.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 19 December 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

view of font - east side

Scene Description: showing the Nativity scene

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photographed taken 28 June 1997 by BSI

view of font and cover - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: the modern bronze cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font cover

Scene Description: and partial view of the basin interior; the inner basin is lined; the lining probably came with the modern cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: "ignus deduceteos ad vitae fontes aquarium"

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 September 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00095BOC

Church/Chapel: Propsteikirche St. Gertrud von Brabant

Church Patron Saints: St. Gertrude of Nivelles [aka Gertraud, Gertraudt, Gertrude, Gertrudis]

Church Location: Auf der Kirchburg 2, Bochum, Germany -- Tel.: 02327-88183

Country Name: Germany

Location: Arnsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Alten Bochum, Bochum

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Essen

Historical Region: Ruhrhöhen -- Ruhrgebiet -- Preußen

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S side

Date: ca. 1175?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Westphalian cylinder font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the verger and the organist at St. Gertrud's, who not only facilitated access and helped with the documentation of this font, but treated us to a wonderful organ concert; just for us!

Church Notes: original church of the 12thC, but built on the site of a 9thC Carolingian church; modified 14th-15thC; badly damaged in a 1517 fire; largely destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII; re-built 1959

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Extensively described and reference in L. Reinold's Der romanische Taufstein in der Propsteikirche zu Bochum [https://www.kortumgesellschaft.de/id-2-heimatbuch-1928-der-romanische-taufstein-in-der-propsteikirche-zu-bochum.html] [accessed 25 December 2022] as one of the few elements of the Romanesque church that has survived to this day; the original base ["einer attischen Basis"] was destroyed and replaced by "einen Wulst"; the cylindrical basin shows work characteristic of the turn of the 12th century ["der Wende des 12. Jahrhunderts"]; Reinold (ibid.) gives extensive details of the iconographic programme on the font and references to the sources that preceded the representation of the scenes and events rendered on it. Tyrrell-Green (1928: 60): "The Crucifixion [...] is rudely represented upon a font at Wattenscheid (Westphalia) as early as 1000 AD"; this same source (ibid., p. 62) mentions lions at the base of the font. Noted in Bröker, Brachthäuser and Schnieders (1995). 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]. Noted and illustrated in Schulin (2021). On-site notes (2 visits): tub-shaped, rather than cylindrical, on a central pedestal and four lion protomes, of which two are probably later replacements; the lower base couls also be modern; four scenes on the basin sides [L->R]: Baptism of Christ, Figure holding flag [Harrowing of Hell?], Nativity and Crucifixion. Round bronze cover with animal scene carved on the top surface; nodern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.480647, 7.132422

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 28′ 50.33″ N, 7° 7′ 56.72″ E

UTM: 32U 370317 5704931

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: Basin lined in heavy bronze; drainage not visible.

Rim Thickness: 15-16 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 65 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 95-97 cm*

Basin Depth: 36 cm* [w/lining]

Height of Basin Side: 61 cm*

Basin Total Height: 61-62 cm*

Height of Base: 30-32 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92-93 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal, bronze

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bröker, Franz-Werner, Wattenscheid : über die Geschichte von Kirche und Stadt : 90 Jahre Propsteikirche und ihr tausendjähriger Taufstein, Wattenscheid: Heimat- und Bürgerverein Wattenscheid, 1995

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

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

Schulin, Bertram, Taufbecken in Deutschland: Form und Ikonographie, 2021

Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928