Munnerstadt No. 2 / Münnerstadt a. d. Lauer
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design element - architectural - arch or window - heart-shaped - 6
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph April 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münnerstadt_Stadtpfarrkirche_Weihwasserbecken_(Taufstein_1493).jpg] [accessed 23 February 2025]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 6
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: inside the heart-shaped frame
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: in the spandreks of the arch-heads
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the corners of the scotia
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design element - motifs - scotia
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inscription
Scene Description: date 1493
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Münnerstadt, St Maria Magdalena" -- showing the west end on the right with the holy-tare stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattana, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 8 August 2012 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münnerstadt,_St_Maria_Magdalena_002.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2025]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: originally a baptismal font, now re-purposed as holy-water stoup in this church
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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Speltz (1994 c1910: 275, pl. 161, fig. 10)
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view of stoup
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtpfarrkirche St. Maria Magdalena, Münnerstadt. Weihwasserbecken (ehemaliger Taufstein von 1493)" -- originally a baptismal font, now re-purposed as holy-water stoup in this church
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: showing the former baptismal font of 1493 now re-purposed as holy-water stoup near the west entranceway
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mattana, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 8 August 2012 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münnerstadt,_St_Maria_Magdalena_002.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02590MUN
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Maria Magdalena
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary Magdalen
Church Location: Kirchpl. 7, 97702 Münnerstadt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9733 9630
Country Name: Germany
Location: Bad Kissingen, Bayern
Directions to Site: Münnerstadt on the Lauer lies about 40 kms N of Schweinfurt off the 286-19/287 road to the E of Frankfurt-am-Main
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Date: 1493
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
Font Notes:
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There are two fonts in this church, one of which, this one, is a former baptismal font now re-purposed as a holy-water stoup. Listed in Georg Dehio's Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Franken. Die Regierungsbezirke Oberfranken, Mittelfranken und Unterfranken (1979). Drawing in Speltz (1994 c1910: 275, pl. 161, fig. 10): hexagonal mounted font; the basin is ornamented with tops of trefoil Gothic arches and foliage motifs; the base in two parts, top part narrower and with a date inscribed on it [1493], is also hexagonal.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.24939, 10.19578
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 14′ 57.8″ N, 10° 11′ 44.81″ E
UTM: 32U 585253 5567044
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
REFERENCES
Speltz, Alexander, Styles of Ornament: a Pictorial Survey of Six Thousand Years of Ornamental Design, New York: Gramercy Books, 1994(c1910)