Wartburg No. 2 / Burg zu Wartburg
Results: 3 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches
BBU01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: at the upper basin side
view of font in context
INFORMATION
Font ID: 10788WAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Castle chapel
Font Location in Church: On the first floor of the castle, in the re-built chapel, to the right of the altar
Church Address: Auf d. Wartburg 1, 99817 Eisenach, Germany -- Tel.: +49 3691 2500
Site Location: Eisenach, Thüringen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located In Eisenach, in the Burg/castle, between road 84 (W) and 19 (E), halfway between Kaeel (NW) and Erfurt (SE)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Romanesque period located in Wartburg Castle [Burg zu Wartburg]; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with mouldings and a blind arcade of shallow round arches raised on a round pedestal base. The "an earlier chapel in the courtyard of the castle was destroyed in a fire in 1317, this new chapel was built in the Romanesque palace in 1320." [source: English-language printed guide] [NB: not clear whether this font belonged to the original chapel or to the later one] [cf. Index entry for Wartburg No.1 for another Romanesque font in this museum]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Tom Heck, of Santa Barbara, USA, for the information on, and photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 591734 5646869
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.966111, 10.306389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 57′ 58″ N, 10° 18′ 23″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round