Bamberg No. 2 / Babenberg / Bambärch / Castrum Babenberch
Image copyright © Pfarrei Unsere Liebe Frau Bamberg, 2014
No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
Results: 30 records
B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0
B02: sacrament - confirmation
Scene Description: in the panel to the right of the Baptism of Christ
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: on the stone lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
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design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: a variety of
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
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human figure - head, face or mask
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
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information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
sacraments
![the other six, in the panels 3 through 7 [order not known]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141511014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the other six, in the panels 3 through 7 [order not known]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0
view of basin
Scene Description: the metal insert is partially visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
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view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: ca. 1887?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: late-19thC B&W photograph by Alois Erhardt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obere_Pfarre_Bamberg_1887.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark PD Old
view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 February 2008 by Berthold Werner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_BW_1.JPG] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - south porch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhard Kirchner, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2007 by Reinhard Kirchner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg-OberePfarre-Brautportal.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken September 2008 by Andreas Praefcke [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Brautpforte.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Berthold Werner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_BW_7.JPG] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2009 by Berthold Werner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_BW_8.JPG] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pfarrei Unsere Liebe Frau Bamberg, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph in http://ulf-urban-bamberg.kirche-bamberg.de/glauben/sakramente/taufe [accessed 16 November 2014
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction – Fair Dealing
view of font in context
Scene Description: in the baptistery chapel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bbb, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2007 by Bbb [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_Obere_Pfarre_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 15 November 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 09390BAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Obere Pfarre Bamberg / Obere Katholische Pfarrkirche zu Unserer Lieben Frau
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary
Church Location: Eisgrube 4, 96049 Bamberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 951 52018
Country Name: Germany
Location: Oberfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located about 50 km NNW of Nuremberg
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Bamberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1510-1520?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Seven-Sacraments font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Font Notes:
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Described in Fryer (1930) as a baptismal font with a basin made of wood and decorated with the seven Sacraments, dated to ca. 1510-1520; the eighth panel is decorated with the Baptism of Christ. The basin is octagonal and made of wood, with a metal basin insert to hold the water; the sides of the basin are decorated as indicated in Fryer [cf. supra]; the stem appears to be made of stone [painted stone?]; the sides of the stem have a variety of motifs, tracery and at least one human head on the panels; one of the panels decorated with tracery is actually make of metal and opens to the interior of the pedestal base; the lower base is octagonal and made of unpainted stone, decorated with graded mouldings. [NB: THERE IS A FONT IDENTICAL TO THIS ONE AT WURZBURG NEUMUSTER KIRCHE WHICH BSI VISITED AND PHOTOGRAPHED 30 SEPTEMBER 2017; SUPPOSED TO BE MODERN -- IS THIS AN ERROR? IS THE WURZBURG-N FONT A COPY? -- TO BE RE-VISITED]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.8893, 10.88438
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 53′ 21.48″ N, 10° 53′ 3.77″ E
UTM: 32U 635354 5528025
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood and stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; hinged in the middle
REFERENCES
Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962
Fryer, Alfred C., "Fonts with Representations of the Seven Sacraments", LXXXVII, Archaeological Journal, 1930, pp. 24-59; p. 41