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animal - mammal - lion - sejant

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Image Source: digital photograph 26 February 2015 by Cherubino [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Friedberg_Taufbecken_02.JPG] [accessed 22 July 2023]

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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - 24 - columns - 12

Scene Description: only every third arch-head is supported

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Friedberg (Hessen): Stadtpfarrkirche Unserer Lieben Frau, von Südwesten gesehen"

Image Source: digital photograph 19 March 2014 by Mylius [Roland Meinecke] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedberg_Hessen_-Stadtpfarrkirche_Unserer_Lieben_Frau_von_Suedwesten-20140319.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Langhaus der Friedberger Stadtkirche. Blick von Westen nach Osten. Blick auf den Chor mit Lettner."

Image Source: digital photograph t May 2022 by Ceharder / Roland Reichl [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkriche_Friedberg_Blick_zum_Lettner.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2023]

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Image Source: digital image of a drawing in Lübke (1870, fig. 56)

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Friedberg Taufbecken"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Friedberg Taufbecken"

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1912 B&W photograph in the Hessiscjes Staatsarchiv Darmstadt [Signatur R 4 Nr. 19949

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14547FRI

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stadtkirche Unserer Lieben Frau

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Engelsgasse 44, 61169 Friedberg (Hessen), Germany -- Tel.: +49 6031 91524

Country Name: Germany

Location: Wetterau, Hesse

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Bd275, about 30 km NNE of Frankfurt-a-M

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite font], Medieval [composite]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: late-12thC church

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Lübke (1870) notes an octagonal font in this church. The entry for this church in the GPS-Wanderatlas [https://www.ich-geh-wandern.de/stadtkirche-friedberg] [accessed 22 July 2023] describes the font as an early-Gothic font on three Romanesque sandstone lions ["frühgotische Taufstein auf drei romanischen Sandsteinlöwen."] The entry for this church in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Friedberg [https://kirchengemeinde-friedberg.ekhn.de/startseite/kontakt/gebaeude-und-adressen/stadtkirche.html] [accessed 22 July 2023] reports a baptismal font of stone from the earlier Romanesque church here ["So wurde über einem romanischen Vorgängerbau (aus dem noch Altar und Taufstein stammen) die gotische Hallenkirche errichtet, ein geistliches wie bürgerliches Symbol." The entry for this church in Kulturkirchen [http://kulturkirchen.org/kirchen/53c55c22e7e982b47c0000b4/Stadtkirche Unserer Lieben Frau] [accessed 22 July 2023] notes a baptismal font of stone dating from the second half of the 13th century. The arcade of pointed arches on the octagonal basin suggest an early-Gothic dating but the three lions of the base are in the Romanesque period/style.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3368, 8.7553

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 20′ 12.48″ N, 8° 45′ 19.08″ E

UTM: 32U 482586 5576107

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone [base only]

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870