Cologne No. 7 / Cologne / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln

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animal - mammal - head - 2

one of four -- a simian?
Scene Description: one of four -- a simian?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 May 2012 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_An_Groß_St_Martin_-_Groß_St_Martin_in_07_ies.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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animal - mammal - head - 2

one of four -- a feline? a bear?
Scene Description: one of four -- a feline? a bear?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 5 May 2012 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_An_Groß_St_Martin_-_Groß_St_Martin_in_07_ies.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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design element - motifs - floral - 8-petal

large ones, all around
Scene Description: large ones, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elke Wetzig (Elya), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2006 by Elke Wetzig (Elya) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_stmartin_taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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design element - motifs - vine

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elke Wetzig (Elya), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 September 2006 by Elke Wetzig (Elya) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_stmartin_taufstein.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of church exterior - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, [2101?]
Image Source: undated [ca. 2010?] digital photograph taken by Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Koeln_gross_st_martin.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of church exterior in context

Source caption: "An early 19th-century view of the north side of the church, after the demolition of the abbey, reveals the triapsidal Romanesque structure of the eastern end." FONT 3 digital photograph taken 5 May 2012 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_An_Groß_St_Martin_-_Groß_St_Martin_in_07_ies.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019] FONT 4 ********THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE CAPTION -- THE FONT ORIGINALLY FROM...**** digital photograph taken 29 July 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Brigiden-Taufstein-13-Jh-heute-Groß-St-Martin.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019] Source caption: "Taufstein der ehemaligen Kirche St. Brigiden, heute Groß St. Martin, Köln. (13. Jahrhundert) Literatur: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne: Kölner Kirchen, die Kirchen der katholischen und evangelischen Gemeinden in Köln. J. P. Bachem Verlag, Köln 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3. S. 67 "
Scene Description: Source caption: "An early 19th-century view of the north side of the church, after the demolition of the abbey, reveals the triapsidal Romanesque structure of the eastern end." FONT 3 digital photograph taken 5 May 2012 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_An_Groß_St_Martin_-_Groß_St_Martin_in_07_ies.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019] FONT 4 ********THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR THE CAPTION -- THE FONT ORIGINALLY FROM...**** digital photograph taken 29 July 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Brigiden-Taufstein-13-Jh-heute-Groß-St-Martin.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019] Source caption: "Taufstein der ehemaligen Kirche St. Brigiden, heute Groß St. Martin, Köln. (13. Jahrhundert) Literatur: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne: Kölner Kirchen, die Kirchen der katholischen und evangelischen Gemeinden in Köln. J. P. Bachem Verlag, Köln 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3. S. 67 "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image scanned by Raimond Spekking of a ca. 1840 lithograph by Alphonse Bichebois of an engraving by Nicolas-Marie-Joseph Chapuy (1790–1858), in Moret's Le Moyen-âge pittoresque (Paris: Chez Veith et Hauser, 1844) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_St_Martin_-_Lithographie_1840.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of church interior - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2012 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_An_Groß_St_Martin_-_Groß_St_Martin_in_05_ies.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of church interior - transept - south - west side - capital

Source caption: "Church Groß St. Martin, Cologne, Germany. capital column of the south western intersection, sculptures, maybe personating Pippin and his wife Plectrude"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Church Groß St. Martin, Cologne, Germany. capital column of the south western intersection, sculptures, maybe personating Pippin and his wife Plectrude"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elke Wetzig (Elya), 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2006 by Elke Wetzig (Elya) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross-st-martin_koeln_vierungspfeiler_suedwest_kapitell.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 July 2017 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_fountain_-_Groß_St._Martin_-_Cologne_-_Germany_2017.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 May 2012 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_-_An_Groß_St_Martin_-_Groß_St_Martin_in_07_ies.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Taufstein der ehemaligen Kirche St. Brigiden, heute Groß St. Martin, Köln. (13. Jahrhundert) Literatur: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne: Kölner Kirchen, die Kirchen der katholischen und evangelischen Gemeinden in Köln. J. P. Bachem Verlag, Köln 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3. S. 67 "
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein der ehemaligen Kirche St. Brigiden, heute Groß St. Martin, Köln. (13. Jahrhundert) Literatur: Manfred Becker-Huberti, Günter A. Menne: Kölner Kirchen, die Kirchen der katholischen und evangelischen Gemeinden in Köln. J. P. Bachem Verlag, Köln 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1731-3. S. 67 "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 July 2009 by Willy Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Brigiden-Taufstein-13-Jh-heute-Groß-St-Martin.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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view of font and cover in context

Source caption: "Blick in das nordwestliche Joch von Groß St. Martin (Köln) mit der Kreuzigungs- und Grablegungsgruppe sowie dem Taufbecken. Im Vordergrund eine moderne Kreuzplastik."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick in das nordwestliche Joch von Groß St. Martin (Köln) mit der Kreuzigungs- und Grablegungsgruppe sowie dem Taufbecken. Im Vordergrund eine moderne Kreuzplastik."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 October 2006 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gross_St_Martin_-_Grablegungsgruppe_und_Kreuz_von_oben.jpg] [accessed 15 October 2019]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 14543COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Groß Sankt Martin Kirche / Gross St. Martin Kirche [originally from St-Brigiden?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: An Groß St. Martin, 50667 Köln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 25084900
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located just a block E of the Rathaus, 300-400 m. SE of the Dom, on the W bank of the river, between the Hohenzollen (N) and the Deutzer (S) bridges, in the Innenstadt
Font Location in Church: Inside the Groß Sankt Martin church
Century and Period: 9th century / 13th century [Roman bath tub?], Roman [altered]
Church Notes: mid-10thC church built on site of Roman chapel; later a Benedictine monastery; present bulding ca. 1150-1250; badly damaged in WWII; restored 1985
Font Notes:
Lübke (1870) notes: "Some times the handsome tubs of the Roman baths were used as fonts; an example of this is the font in Great St Martin at Cologne, according to an old tradition a present from Pope Leo III., of the beginning of the ninth century". Described in Walker (1883): "a fine early white marble font". The font is octagonal, the vertical sides decorated with floral and foliage motifs all around; on four (?) of the upper basin sides are animal heads; the octagonal stand is modern. [NB: the present font is said to have come originally from the disappeared Kirche St. Brigiden].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.938492, 6.961839
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 18.57″ N, 6° 57′ 42.62″ E
UTM: 32U 356800 5644963

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: metal
Apparatus: none
Notes: the rectangular cover is raised with a ridged in the centre; four ring hadles at the corners; appears modern

REFERENCES

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870
Walker, J. Russell, "Notes on Continental Churches", (1883), Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1883, pp. 49-75; p. 64