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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

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B02: Christ - Christ in Majesty

B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12

Scene Description: St. Peter holding a key in the left arch

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BBU01: design element - motifs - braid - 2-strand

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BS01: design element - motifs - foliage

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LB01: animal - protome - 4?

Scene Description: they could be meant to be lions, but they are grotesque, rather than representative

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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © E.J. Erpelinck, 2004

Image Source: photograph taken 27 June 1995 by E.J. Erpelinck

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00322WIN
Church/Chapel: Pfarr- und Klosterkirche Maria Himmelfahrt und St Sabinus [Premonstratensian monastery]
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary & St. Sabinus
Church Location: Pfarrpl. 22, 94336 Windberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9422 8240
Country Name: Germany
Location: Niederbayern, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off the SR49, 14-15 km ENE of Straubing, in the Bayerischer Wald
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1230-1240
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to E.J. Erpelinck, Sas van Gent, The Netherlands, for the information on and image of this font
Church Notes: church ca. 1142; abbey dissolved and secularised 1803, the church pecame parochial at the time
Roughly cylindrical granite baptismal font mounted on four reclining beasts; the upper basin side has a band of two-strand braid at the rim; below it an arcade of round arches, each inhabited by a figure; the figures are probably the Apostles and Christ himself; the base consists of four (?) grotesque animal (lion?) protomes that appear to be detached and are placed at 90-degree angles, much in the manner of German fonts of this period. Dehio (1988) notes a Regensburg influence on this font.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.939722, 12.746944
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 56′ 23″ N, 12° 44′ 49″ E
UTM: 33U 335013 5423202

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: five?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Dehio, George, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Bayern II: Niederbayern, 1988