Limburg / Limburg an der Lahn / Limburg a. d. Lahn
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Image Source: drawing by Walker in Walker (1883)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gryffindor, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2008 by Gryffindor [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limburg_200829.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Santiago2000, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 April 2008 by Santiago2000 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limburg_-_Dom_-_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2009]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: forming the capitals of the columns of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis - inverted
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - 2 - intertwined
Scene Description: between the human figures
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Apostle or saint - saints? - unidentified
Scene Description: two of them seen here
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - angel holding clothes
Scene Description: on one of the angles of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Phantom3Pix, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2015 by Phantom3Pix [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limburger_Dom_Bild_1.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roland Meinecke, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2014 by Roland Meinecke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limburg_an_der_Lahn-Dom_mit_Altstadt_von_Suedwesten-20140402.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mylius, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2012 by Mylius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Limburg_an_der_Lahn-Dom-Inneres_von_Osten-20120704.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trolinus, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2006 by Trolinus [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_im_Limburger_Dom.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2009]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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human figure - seated - 2 - embracing?
Scene Description: seen here on the centre left
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon? - 2
Scene Description: feline front of the body, coiled tail, long neck intertwined with similar; seen here on the centre right
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animal - fabulous animal or monster?
Scene Description: partly damaged; seen here on the left
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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animal - fabulous animal or monster?
Scene Description: or perhaps felines? seen here on the centre shaft of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2016 by Joost Limburg
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gryffindor, 2008
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gryffindor, 2008
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gryffindor, 2008
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hersteller und Verlag Schöning & Co., [n.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by Hersteller und Verlag Schöning & Co., Lübeck
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14524LIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1230?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (early?), Early Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Limburger Dom [aka Dompfarrei St. Georg / Georgsdom]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel of the S aisle [earlier in the S transept]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. George
Church Notes: original church consecrated here between 814 and 847; documents refer to new basilica church built ca. 910 and completed by 940; present building ca. 1180-1190, consecrated 1235;
Church Address: Domplatz, 65549 Limburg an der Lahn, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6431 9297990
Site Location: Giessen, Hesse, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the A3, in the W of the state
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Font Notes:
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Noted in Otte's Handbuch der kirchlichen Kunst-Archaologie des deutschen... (v. 1, 1863: 214) and in Lübke (1870). Described and illustrated in Walker (1883): "remarkably fine font [...] unfortunately it has been painted or whitewashed over and over again, and otherwise injured, but enough remains [...] to show that the detail is of great beauty and excellence. The size over the top is fully 4 feet, and the height from the floor 3 feet 6 inches. The basin is octagonal, with a round bowl; the basin is supported in the centre by a square shaft ornamented with grotesque animals, and facing the corners of the octagon are shafts with carved capitals and figure sculpture above; the bases are ornamented in a similar manner with a variety of subjects." Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with rounded underbowl, raised on a broad central shaft and eight outer colonnettes; the sides of the basin are decorated with one scene, the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, and seven male and female figures in different poses at the angles; they may represent saints or other holy persons, none of the haloed; between these figures are foliage and animal decorations, one of which is of a pair of dragons, their coiled tails intertwined; the underbowl has an inverted fleur-de-lis motif on each side, between the large foliated capitals that belong to the outer columns of the base; the base itself consists of a central broad polygonal shaft decorated with animals [felines?], and eight columns at the outer angles with large foliated capitals on the underbowl; these columns are populated with a number of human figures and fabulous monsters; plain square bases; the octagonal lower base or plinth appears modern. The font cover is an octagonal pillbox-like top on a wider circular platform decorated with a wavy pattern with some animals on its upper surface; the upper octagonal part has two levels of panels, up and down, each decorated with a large symbol (Sun, fruit and birds, naked human figure and snake, etc.); two of the double panels are hinged and open to give access to the basin interior and the holy water therein; this font cover fits in a rounded groove at the top the basin, but there are lead plugs in the upper rim from an earlier font cover.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 433652 5582287
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.388889, 8.066667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 23′ 20″ N, 8° 4′ 0″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in feet/inches in Walker (1883)]
REFERENCES
- Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870, p. 187
- Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; p. 59-71, fig. 1