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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Otte [after Weerth] (1883: Bd. I, fig. 119)
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the upper rim sides
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view of church exterior - west façade
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: the reconstructed west portal
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view of church exterior - south view
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Image Source: edited digital photograph taken 30 April 2013 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zyfflich,_die_Sankt_Martinuskirche_Dm26_foto2_2013-04-30_08.17.jpg] [accessed 12 February 2016]
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view of church exterior - west portal - lintel
Scene Description: Source caption: "Türsturz über dem Hauptportal der Kirche mit der Inschrift „VITA SALUS REQUIES DATUR HIC PULSATE FIDELES“. Rekonstruktion nach dem im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstörten Original."
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font
Scene Description: the baptismal font after its restoration from the WWII damage
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Image Source: digital photograph [source not given] supplied by Pol Herman
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00830ZYF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font
Church / Chapel Name: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: original church early-11thC [recently excavated cemetery could be 6thC]; collegiate 1436; damaged 1944-1945; restored 1950s; re-consecrated 1961
Church Address: Häfnerdeich, Zyfflich, 47559 Kranenburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2826 226
Site Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the 9/N325, in the municipality of Kranenburg, just E/SE of the border with the Netherlands, 8-10 km E of Nijmegen
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Additional Comments: altered font / damaged font (only the basin survived the WWII damage) -- measurements seem out of the ordinary Is it possible the 'diamter' is actually the circunference, instead? -emailed Pol for conformation 24
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Weerth (1857) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the 12th century. In Otte (1883) [after Weerth]. Enlart (1902: 777n1, 771n3) lists this font as a "fonts à cinq supports de Tournai" [=Tournai font on a 5-column base]. Listed as a Tournai font in Bond (1908: 205), who cites Enlart as source. Drake (2002: 176), a reliable source on Tournai fonts, classes it as a Mosan font of an exception type: "round tub font, near hemispherical, with small salient heads".
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 10 September 2022) adds: "In Zyfflich stands a Mosan baptismal font that is difficult to date. In 1857, Ernst Aus’m Weerth published a drawing of it, and the font then had a central shaft and four corner columns. On the 16th of December 1944, the church was destroyed by a bombardment, and only the basin survived. Reconstruction of the church started in 1950, and archaeological excavations were done. Among other things, a baptismal font (round structure with tufa walls and a base diameter of 3 meters) from the original monastery church was discovered (built 1014-1016, certainly finished 1021). The basin had an internal diameter of 224 cm. The report of these finds is in : “Der Grundungsbau der Stiftskirche St. Martin in Zyfflich“ bei Leo Schaefer in Die Kunstdenkmäler des Rheinlandes, Beiheft 9, Essen, 1963 [no way to find this on Internet.] This means that the Mosan font is younger. I would estimate late Romanesque because of the form of the basin, or early gothic because of the moulding above the heads. Probably later in the 13th century?"
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 10 September 2022) adds: "In Zyfflich stands a Mosan baptismal font that is difficult to date. In 1857, Ernst Aus’m Weerth published a drawing of it, and the font then had a central shaft and four corner columns. On the 16th of December 1944, the church was destroyed by a bombardment, and only the basin survived. Reconstruction of the church started in 1950, and archaeological excavations were done. Among other things, a baptismal font (round structure with tufa walls and a base diameter of 3 meters) from the original monastery church was discovered (built 1014-1016, certainly finished 1021). The basin had an internal diameter of 224 cm. The report of these finds is in : “Der Grundungsbau der Stiftskirche St. Martin in Zyfflich“ bei Leo Schaefer in Die Kunstdenkmäler des Rheinlandes, Beiheft 9, Essen, 1963 [no way to find this on Internet.] This means that the Mosan font is younger. I would estimate late Romanesque because of the form of the basin, or early gothic because of the moulding above the heads. Probably later in the 13th century?"
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 704963 5745526
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.822911, 5.974189
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49′ 22.48″ N, 5° 58′ 27.08″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: tub-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 205
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 39, 41n19, 176
- Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909, p. 30
- Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 777 footnote 1 & 3
- Otte, Heinrich, Handbuch der kirchlichen Kunst-Archäologie des deutschen Mittelalters, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1883, Bd. I: 307, fig. 119
- Weerth, Ernst Aus'm, Kunstdenkmäler des christlichen Mittelalters in den Rheinlanden, Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, 1857-1868, Bd. I: xvii, 13, 14, Tafel VI.1