Nuremberg No. 1 / Nämberch / Nürnberg

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Results: 54 records

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Matthias - holding ax and book

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes] -- seen here to the right of the Crucifixion

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B03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

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B04: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel and sword

Scene Description: to the right of Andrew

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B05: Apostle or saint - St. Bartholomew - holding flaying knife

Scene Description: to the right of Catherine

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B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Thomas - holding spear

B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Simon Zelotes

B08: Apostle or saint - St. Ursula

Scene Description: with arrow? or palm?

B09: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - holding book

B10: Apostle or saint - unidentified

B11: Apostle or saint - unidentified

B12: Apostle or saint - unidentified

B13: Christ - Christ in Majesty

B14: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - charging of the keys

B15: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding book and sword

B16: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist - holding goblet or chalice

Scene Description: and a snake?

B17: Apostle or saint - St. Dorothea of Caesarea - with basket of roses

B18: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - with shell

B19: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Judas Thaddeus

B20: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Philip - holding Tau cross

Scene Description: to the left of St. Barbara

B21: Apostle or saint - St. Barbara - with chalice and Host

Scene Description: two of her usual symbols; others are: a three-window tower, a palm, a sword, etc. -- seen here to the left of the Crucifixion scene

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Apostle or saint - unidenitfied - 4

Scene Description: Church Fathers?

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Christ

Scene Description: in the thirteenth arch on the stem

New Testament - public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?

Scene Description: over twelve of the thirteen arches on the stem

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design element - architectural - arcade - cinquefoiled arches - crocketed and pinnacled arches - columns with capitals and bases - 13

Scene Description: containing Christ and the wise and foolish virgins of the parable

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design element - architectural - arcade - cinquefoiled arches - crocketed and pinnacled arches - columns with capitals and bases - 21

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: a band of, all around

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design element - motifs - floral and foliage

Scene Description: a band of, all around, below the arcade of the stem

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage - 21

Scene Description: of pinnacle shape, in all the spandrels of the arcade

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

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information

Scene Description: write out about the St. Sebald and its font

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information

Scene Description: details of the model cut-out of the font; the details include a helpful listing of the basin figures

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information

Scene Description: design and details of the font cut-out

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information

Scene Description: design and details of the font cut-out

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information

Scene Description: design and details of the font cut-out

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view of basin - west side

Scene Description: notice 1)the metal inserrt with a decorated rim; and, 2)the paper cut-out model of the font on the upper rim [cf. FontNotes]

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view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2006 by jailbird [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nürnberg_St._Sebald_komplett_v_N.jpg] [accessed 23 December 2014]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "3D historical restoration of the Romanesque-period form of the St. Sebald Church. It was errected in the 13th Century as a late Romanesque pier basilica with two choirs. Consisting of a three aisled nave and a one aisled transept, it had an east and a west choir. The church was in this form between 1225-1309."

Scene Description: Source caption: "3D historical restoration of the Romanesque-period form of the St. Sebald Church. It was errected in the 13th Century as a late Romanesque pier basilica with two choirs. Consisting of a three aisled nave and a one aisled transept, it had an east and a west choir. The church was in this form between 1225-1309."

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "Historical Restoration of the early Gothic-period Saint Sebald Church, Nuremberg. This screenshot of a 3D digital historic restoration shows the Gothic Side Aisle enhancements build between 1309 and 1350. This view is a combination of 3D digital historic restoration and a point cloud from the laser scan of the current condition of the Church, seen here in reddish-brown."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Historical Restoration of the early Gothic-period Saint Sebald Church, Nuremberg. This screenshot of a 3D digital historic restoration shows the Gothic Side Aisle enhancements build between 1309 and 1350. This view is a combination of 3D digital historic restoration and a point cloud from the laser scan of the current condition of the Church, seen here in reddish-brown."

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "Historical Restoration showing the late Gothic East Choir addition, Saint Sebald Church. This historic restoration shows the Gothic enhancement on the East Choir. During 1361-1450, the old Romanesque East Choir was completely reconstructed and transformed into a Gothic choir design. This view is a combination of 3D digital historic restoration and a point cloud from the laser scan of the current condition of the Church, seen here in reddish-brown."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Historical Restoration showing the late Gothic East Choir addition, Saint Sebald Church. This historic restoration shows the Gothic enhancement on the East Choir. During 1361-1450, the old Romanesque East Choir was completely reconstructed and transformed into a Gothic choir design. This view is a combination of 3D digital historic restoration and a point cloud from the laser scan of the current condition of the Church, seen here in reddish-brown."

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Source caption: "This historic restoration shows the Romanesque period Saint Sebaldus Church in combination with the current condition of the Church. This view is a combination of 3D digital historic restoration and a point cloud from the laser scan of the current condition of the Church, seen here in reddish-brown."

Scene Description: Source caption: "This historic restoration shows the Romanesque period Saint Sebaldus Church in combination with the current condition of the Church. This view is a combination of 3D digital historic restoration and a point cloud from the laser scan of the current condition of the Church, seen here in reddish-brown."

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 15 August 2013 by Lars Steffens [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nürnberg_(9529860153)_(2).jpg] [accessed 23 December 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: 1493: it shows Sebalduskirche to the left of the castle, to the right of Lorenzkirche

view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "Das zerstörte und befreite Nürnberg im April 1945: Blick über den Hauptmarkt, von der Plobenhofstraße gegen Nordwesten auf St. Sebald gesehen."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Das zerstörte und befreite Nürnberg im April 1945: Blick über den Hauptmarkt, von der Plobenhofstraße gegen Nordwesten auf St. Sebald gesehen."

Image Source: B&W photograph work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nürnberg_im_April_1945_08.jpg] [accessed 23 December 2014]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: illustration in "Die Gartenlaube" (Leipzig: Ernst Keil's Nachfolger,1886) p.445 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Gartenlaube_(1886)_b_444.jpg] [accessed 23 December 2014]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: Source caption: "Petersaltar in der Sebalduskirche in Nürnberg / Altar of Peter in Sebaldus Church in Nuremberg"

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view of church interior - monument

Source caption: "Monument of St. Sebaldus in the Sebalduskirche at Nuremburg, the masterpiece of Peter Vischer the elder and his sons, begun 1508, completed 1519, 1/25 of actual size. (Now Seemann's "Wandbilder".)"

Scene Description: Source caption: "Monument of St. Sebaldus in the Sebalduskirche at Nuremburg, the masterpiece of Peter Vischer the elder and his sons, begun 1508, completed 1519, 1/25 of actual size. (Now Seemann's "Wandbilder".)"

Image Source: illustration in H.F. Helmolt, History of the World, Volume VII, Dodd Mead 1902. Left half of plate between pages 154 and 155 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monument_of_St_Sebaldus.jpg] [accessed 23 December 2014]

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view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: Monument of St. Sebaldus by Peter Vischer the elder and his sons in 1508-1519

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - nave - monument

Scene Description: the nave with the monument to St. Sebald

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: St. Peter's retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: "Das Taufbecken der Nürnberger Sebalduskirche Modellbogen – Maßstab 1:10" -- a paper cut-out of the font

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view of font and cover

view of font in context

Scene Description: in the context of the west choir [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 03219NUR

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Ev.-Luth. Kirche St. Sebaldus / Sebalduskirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Sebald [aka Sebaldo, Sebaldus] [8th cent. Italian saint]

Church Location: Winklerstraße 26, 90403 Nürnberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 911 2142500

Country Name: Germany

Location: Mittelfranken, Bayern

Directions to Site: Located in Winklerstrasse 26, Nürnberg city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diözese Bamberg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W choir [cf. FontNotes]

Date: ca. 1450?

Century and Period: 15th century (mid?), Late Gothic? / Renaissance?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view

Illustrated in Lallov's (1934) as a transition font, "foreshadowing the Renaissance type"; it is a pedestal font with a round tapering basin which is decorated with a prominent lip moulding at the upper rim, and an arcade of crocketed and pinnacled arches containing holy figures inside the arches; the underbowl chamfer has graded mouldings, with two foliated (?) bands between the last ones; the pedestal base is a broad cylindrical pedestal decorated with a similar arcade to the one on the basin, also with holy figures inside the arches; there are four hieratic figures, detached from the central pedestal, their heads against the lower rim of the basin, feet resting on moulded pedestal that form part of the lower base; there are bands of foliage (?) also between the lower base mouldings, as above. This font is in part reminiscent of the Romanesque basin and figural base of the font at the Hildesheim Dom and, at the same time, not very different, except for the base figures, from the 17th century font also at Hildesheim. The font cover, unlike that of the Romanesque Hildesheim font, is flat and has a chalice-like finial (description based on ill. in Lallov, 1934). In Carlsson (1976: p. 68 and pl. 40). The font is now located in the west choir, though the original location is believed to have been between the west columns by the Marien-Portal. A description of the details of the font here is provided, together with a papar cut-out model of the font, with text by Petra Seegets and photographs by Thomas Pleiner and Thomas Bachmann, in [www.kartonmodell-forum.net/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=65] [accessed 23 December 2014] [automatic translation by Google Translate]: The bowl is decorated lavishly with a total of 21 image fields: Shown are Christ as ruler and a crucifixion scene, as the Epistle to the Romans (6: 3ff) According to all the baptized are redeemed by Christ. These two representations of Christ are connected by arcades of Gothic tracery and show Apostle (z. B. Andreas with the X-shaped cross and St. Peter with the keys) and Saints (including Catherine of Alexandria with the wheel and Barbara with chalice and host). On the shaft there are 13 fields: Christ in the midst of the wise and foolish virgins with their oil lamps (Matthew 25: 1-13). The twelfth frame again shows the crucifixion of Jesus, while the left hand in the 13th Field barred door made it possible to control the temperature of the baptismal water in the boiler by hot coal from the bottom. By mapping the female saints on the shell and the wise virgins on the shaft relative to the font West choir, which was dedicated to the holy virgins of Christianity received. This took in the theology of the Middle Ages a preferred position in the sky. Have "The lamps so are the light of the luminous souls who get through the mystery of baptism Gloss: At the same time the wise virgins, please refer to baptism, as a quote from the ancient church teacher Hilary of Poitiers shows, who wrote in his commentary on the Gospel of Matthew ". Bertram Schulin's Taufbecken in Deutschland: Form und Ikonographie [https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/6951/1/Schulin_Taufbecken_in_Deutschland_2021.pdf] [accessed 7 November 2022] identifies three German fonts that incorporate a heating system for the water: Marienkirche in Salzwedel, St. Sebald in Nürnberg and St. Jakobus Major in Cuxhaven.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.455278, 11.075833

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 27′ 19″ N, 11° 4′ 33″ E

UTM: 32U 650438 5480140

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: the basin has a metal insert with a decorated rim

LID INFORMATION

Date: 15th century?

Notes: a simple font cover is displayed in Lalov's photograph of ca. 1934

REFERENCES

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

Caumont, Arcisse de, Essai sur l'architecture religieuse du Moyen Age, principalement en Normandie, Caen: Chalopin fils, 1825

Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; p. 8fn

Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; ill. on p. 93

Omilanowska, Malgorzata, Germany, New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2001