Bamberg No. 2 / Babenberg / Bambärch / Castrum Babenberch

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: on one of the panels of the basin

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

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 - moulding - graded

Scene Description: on the stone lower base

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

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

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

sacraments

Scene Description: the other six, in the panels 3 through 7 [order not known]

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 basin

Scene Description: the metal insert is partially visible here

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: ca. 1887?

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]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

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

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2007 by Reinhard Kirchner [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg-OberePfarre-Brautportal.jpg] [accessed 15 November 2014]

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view of church exterior - south portal

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]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

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]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

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

Image Source: digital photograph in http://ulf-urban-bamberg.kirche-bamberg.de/glauben/sakramente/taufe [accessed 16 November 2014

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view of font in context

Scene Description: in the baptistery chapel

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]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09390BAM

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: Click to view font notes

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; r["References"]