Eisenach

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design element - motifs - ball-flower - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the octagonal rim

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2019

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 October 2019 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgenkirche,_Taufstein_Eisenach_20191004_001.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: graded moulding at the upper basin side and rim; other mouldings forming semi-circles around the basin sides

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Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2019 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgenkirche,_Taufstein_Eisenach_20191004_002.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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design element - patterns - tracery

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Image Source: digital photograph 4 October 2019 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georgenkirche,_Taufstein_Eisenach_20191004_002.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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design element - patterns - weaved

Scene Description: geometric weaved pattern all around, resembling the pattern on a basket

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inscription

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2016 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenach_Georgenkirche_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Saint George church in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Krzysztof Golik, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 9 October 2018 by Krzysztof Golik [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_George_church_in_Eisenach_(6).jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Georgenkirche am Marktplatz in Eisenach (Thüringen, Deutschland)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A. Savin, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2020 by A. Savin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thuringia_Eisenach_asv2020-07_img18_StGeorge_Church.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Georgenkirche in Eisenach, von Westen"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Wittwer, 2023

Image Source: digital photograph 5 August 2023 by Michael Wittwer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenach_2023_-_Georgenkirche.jpg] [accessed 6 Aogust 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: " Eisenach ( Thüringen ). Pfarrkirche St. Georgen ( 1561 ) - Innenraum."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2016 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenach_Georgenkirche_-_Innenraum_1.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: " Der Taufstein Bachs von 1503: über diesem Taufbecken in der Georgenkirche zu Eisenach wurde Johann Sebastian Bach am 23. März 1685 getauft."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hainz Albers, 2011

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eisenach, Georgenkirche, Taufstein"

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view of font - south side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eisenach, Georgenkirche, Taufstein"

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eisenach ( Thüringen ). Pfarrkirche St. Georgen - Gotischer Taufstein ( 1503 )"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph 10 August 2016 by Wolfgang Sauber [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eisenach_Georgenkirche_-_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of font in context - east side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Sauber, 2016

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view of font in context - northeast side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tomoko Yamamoto, 1999

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INFORMATION

FontID: 10295EIS
Church/Chapel: Georgenkirche [Parish Church of St. George]
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Markt 1X, 99817 Eisenach, Germany -- Tel.: +49 3691 883090
Country Name: Germany
Location: Wartburg, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the Bd19, 30 km W of Gotha, 55 km W of Erfurt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end, at the foot of the presbitery, centre of the nave
Date: 1503
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Tome Heck for their help in documenting this font
Chalice-shaped baptismal font in which Johan Sebastian Bach was baptised in 1685. The stone font consists of a tapering octagonal basin of rounded sides decorated with tracery, raised on an octagonal pyramidal pedestal decorated with wicker pattern; the inner basin is lined. The date 1503 appears on the west side of the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.974345, 10.319568
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 58′ 27.64″ N, 10° 19′ 10.45″ E
UTM: 32U 592643 5647801

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 97 cm*
Basin Depth: 46 cm* [estimated]
Basin Total Height: 66 cm*
Height of Base: 53 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 119 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Anne & Tom Heck]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin and underbowl
Inscription Text: "15/03"
Inscription Source: [Image area]