Dulken / Dülken
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view of church exterior
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kath. Kirche St. Cornelius und Peter in Dülken-Boisheim"
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Cornelius (Viersen) - Blick in die Kirche" -- showing the 16thC font in the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolfo42, 2020
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Cornelius (Viersen) - Blick in die Kirche" -- showing the 16thC font in the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolfo42, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 5 July 2020 by Rudolfo42 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020_07_05_St._Cornelius_(Viersen)_(51).jpg] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kirchen und Kapellen in der Stadt Viersen, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Kirchen und Kapellen in der Stadt Viersen [http://limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen im Kreis Viersen/Kirchen Viersen/Dulken,St.Cornelius.htm] [accessed 22 April 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 00831DUK
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Cornelius
Church Patron Saints: St. Cornelius
Church Location: Alter Markt 1 / Kreuzherrenstraße 13, 41751 Viersen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off the L29 and the L475, W of Bd61, 7-8 km NW of M. Gladbach, about 25 km W of Düsseldorf
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the centre aisle
Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
Church Notes: earlier church probably 12thC; present church started 1871; completed 1908
According to the Hochbauamt der Stadt Viersen (Februar 1989) [https://www.viersen.de/de/denkmal/katholische-pfarrkirche-st.-cornelius-2356784/] [accessed 22 April 2023], the parish church at Dülken, Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Cornelius, is dedicated to St. Cornelius; the original church dated probably to 1135; the modified church was dedicated to St. Cornelius and St. Udalricus in 1478; the stone for a new church was laid in 1871; the new church was completed in 1908. The font is described as 16th-century, made of blue limestone, and is topped with an 18th-century brass cover: "Taufbecken (Anfang 16. Jahrhundert). Das Taufbecken aus Blaustein, Höhe: 87 cm, Breite: 48 cm, steht auf einer quadratischen Basis. Darauf folgt ein achteckiger Fuß, ein Schaft, ein Nodus und das Becken, sämtlich profiliert, jedoch nicht weiter ausladend als die Basis, Die Messingwanne mit Deckel (18. Jahrhundert) misst mit Knauf und Kreuz etwa 30 cm." Listed for "Odilienberg (Germany)" as a Romanesque Tournai font with heads at 90-degree angles on the basin sides and a five-support base, and as "Dülken Odilienberg (Germany)" at different points by Enlart (1902). He also lists another "Odilienberg" font in Belgium. Neither Bond nor Enlart -from whom Bond cites- is reliable on these references. Eden (1909, p. 30) uses Bond as source and is therefore equally unreliable.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.250797,
6.334707
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 15′ 2.87″ N,
6° 20′ 4.94″ E
UTM: 32U 314002 5681090
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 18th century
Material:
metal,
brass
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908
Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909
Eden, Cecil H., Black Tournai Fonts in England, London: E. Stock, 1909
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
