Zella / Zella-Mehlis

INFORMATION

Font ID: 02882ZEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1538
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century
Site Location: Suhl, Thüringen, Germany?, Europe
Directions to Site: Uncertain location: according to Enlart, it is near Mulhouse (i.e., French-German border. Only such location found is Zella-Mehlis, in Thüringen, Germany, about 50 kms south of Gotha
Font Notes:
Enlart mentions the font at Zella as one of the few surviving wooden fonts and gives the date as 1538 (Enlart, 1902)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: wood, type unknown
Font Shape: unknown
Basin Exterior Shape: Unknown

REFERENCES

  • Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902, p. 49, footnote 1