Monchen-Gladbach / Mönchen-Gladbach / Mönchengladbach / Monchengladbach
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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant - 4
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbacher Münster St. Vitus"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CaS2000, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2014 by CaS2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münster_MG_vom_Abteigarten.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Северный Рейн-Вестфалия, Мёнхенгладбах - Базилика Святого Вита"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Островский Александр, Киев, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 May 2012 by Островский Александр, Киев [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Munster_16_-_Basilika_St._Vitus.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbacher Münster: Kirchenraum und Chor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CaS2000, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 27 February 2014 by CaS2000 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Münster_Langhaus_Blick_in_den_Chor_2014.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Mönchengladbach, Deutschland. Römisch-katholische Kirche St. Vitus, Taufbecken."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG_StVitus_Taufe.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Münsterkirche St. Vitus in Mönchengladbach Mitte"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe und Bernd Limburg, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 2015 by Käthe und Bernd Limburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MG-Mitte,_Münsterkirche_St._Vitus_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 9 August 2023]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karl-Heinz Schumacher, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph by Karl-Heinz Schumacher [http://www.baukunst-nrw.de/index.php?oid=756] [accessed 13 June 2008]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 13546MON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Mönchengladbacher Münster St. Vitus [Benedictine abbey]
Church Patron Saints: St. Vitus
Church Location: Abteistraße 41, 41061 Mönchengladbach, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd230, just W of Dusseldorf, towards the Dutch border
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan font?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: monastery founded late-10thC;
Font Notes:
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Noted in Karl-Heinz Schumacher: Das Münster St. Vitus in Mönchengladbach. Erschienen in: Rheinische Kunststätten, Heft 544, Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz, Köln 2013, S. 16f, as a 12th-century baptismal font in the baptistery chapel ["Außerhalb dieses Südschiffes entstand eine zweijochige Apostelkapelle, die auch capella baptisterii oder capella fontis (Taufkapelle) genannt wird. In dieser Kapelle steht der nach maasländischem Typus aus Blaustein geschaffene Taufstein aus dem 12. Jahrhundert."] Listed in Drake (2002) as a Belgian baptismal font consisting of a round basin mounted on a single support, althgough it stands on a broad central shaft and four slender corner colonnettes; the basin has human heads at 90-degree angles around the upper rim; they serve as capitals to the columns that continue down the basin sides and tie in with those of the base; each side of the basin is decorated with a lion passant; the underbowl is moulded, as is the lower base around the bases of the columns [NB: the lower base edges appear re-tooled].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.192448, 6.431555
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 11′ 32.81″ N, 6° 25′ 53.6″ E
UTM: 32U 320533 5674362
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)
REFERENCES
Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002