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

FontID: 10788WAR
Church/Chapel: Castle chapel
Country Name: Germany
Location: Eisenach, Thüringen
Directions to Site: In Eisenach, in the Burg/castle
Font Location in Church: On the first floor of the castle, in the re-built chapel, to the right of the altar
Date: ca. 1200?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Tom Heck, of Santa Barbara, USA, for the information on, and photographs of this font.
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]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round