Freudenstadt im Schwarzwald

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R01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_743.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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animal - 2 - zoomachia?

Scene Description: showing a partial inscription above them

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_741.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - 2 - held by a human

Scene Description: the beasts appear to have their necks twisted around each other; the bodies(?) show a long fish tail and wings

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_744.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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animal - mammal - deer or stag

Scene Description: Carlsson identifies it as a snake-eating deer

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_736.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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animal - mammal - lion - cub - playing

Scene Description: playful lion cubs

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animal 0 mammal - lion - cub

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_742.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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human figure - male - bearded - long braided hair

Scene Description: holding the bodies of two fabulous animals

Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_735.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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human figure - male - contorsionist

Scene Description: seen here on the right; lion cubs walking away on the left

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 August 2021 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_735.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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inscription - detail

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Freudenstadt"

Image Source: digital photograph 1 July 2019 by Wald-Burger8 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Freudenstadt_1._Juli_2019_(15).JPG] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Freudenstadt, Taufstein in der Stadtkirche, Kabinettformat. Date circa 1890"

Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1890 B&W photograph by Paul Sinner, in Wolfgang Hesse: Ansichten aus Schwaben; Kunst, Land und Leute in Aufnahmen der ersten Tübinger Lichtbildner und des Fotografen Paul Sinner (1838–1925), Gebrüder Metz, Tübingen 1989 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Taufstein_1890.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Stadtkirche in Freudenstadt im Landkreis Freudenstadt (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), romanisches Taufbecken"

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

Scene Description: the quadruped on the left is described in Carlsson it as a snake-eating deer

Image Source: digital photograph 22 November 2023 by Moleskine [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font_of_Stadtkirche_(Freudenstadt)_Basis.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Freudenstadt: Taufbecken der Stadtkirche."

Image Source: digital photograph 29 August 2013 by LepoRello [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Taufbecken_2013-08-29.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Freudenstadt: Innenraum der Stadtkirche, einer Winkelkirche (oder Winkelhakenkirche)."

Image Source: digital photograph 29 August 2013 by LepoRello [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freudenstadt_Stadtkirche_Innenraum_2013-08-29.jpg] [accessed 18 February 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02092FRE

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stadkirche Freudenstadt

Church Location: Marktpl. 35, 72250 Freudenstadt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7441 6087

Country Name: Germany

Location: Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg

Directions to Site: located off the 28-462 crossroads, about 45 km E of Strasbourg

Historical Region: Schwarzwald

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: ca. 1100?

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Some similarities with the Castle Frome font in England

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin "Paddie" Drake for his help documenting this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The Freudenstadt font bears some resemblance, especially in its general structure, to the one in Castle Frome St. Michael's, England. The large bucket-like basin has a very thick rope motif at the rim and at the point where the basin joins the base; between those two parallel lines are portrayed a human figure, bearded and with long braided hair, appears to hold the bodies of two fabulous animals or monsters, one of them with a long tail and wings; several beautiful animals deftly, though not realistically, carved ambulate on the sides. The stag refers to Psalm 42, as the inscription "homo cervus" points out. Carlsson (1976: 125-126) ellaborates on the symbolism of the "snake-eating deer". Carlsson cites W. von Blankenburg's Heilige und dämonische Tiere (Leipzig, 1943: figs. 122-124) as source The base is made of several playful lion cubs and one human figures contorsionistin a strange position, not too dissimilar from those found on the base of the Santoña font in northen Spain; the Santoña font has two crouching lions at the front, while at the back, two monks (?) sit together. (Schiller, 1971, p. 141 and ill. 378). . Described in Carlsson (ibid.) as having been "brought to this church during the first years of the 17th century but its original provenance is unknown. [...] It has, however, been generally assumed that it originates from the abbey-church of Alpirsbach", and goes on to relate the lions on the font with those found in the abbey-church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.4624, 8.41063

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 27′ 44.64″ N, 8° 24′ 38.27″ E

UTM: 32U 456430 5367864

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: Under the rim, on the basin side

Inscription Text: "EVOMIT INFUSUM HOMO CERVUS AB ANQUE VENENUM"

Inscription Source: Davies (1962: 89) gives orig. source: R. Baurreiss, 'Arbor Vitae, "Lebnsbaum" und seine Verwendunbg in Liturgies, Kunst und Bracuchtum des Abendlandes', Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Benediktiner-Akademie, III, 1938, p. 63

REFERENCES

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

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

Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971

von Blankenburg, W., Heilige und dämonische Tiere, 1943