Bad Urach / Urach

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Old Testament - Joseph -, son of Jacob - with sceptre and scroll

Scene Description: seen here on the left -- one source suggests he could be Christoph von Urach, the maker of the font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_182.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_183.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - holding tablets - wearing horns

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_188.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_189.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - story of David - David made king in Hebron - wearing crown - with harp - with scroll

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_187.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - story of Solomon - Solomon - wearing crown - holding scroll

Scene Description: seen here on the right

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_186.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - the book of Isaiah - Isaiah - holding open book - wearing turban

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_185.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - the book of Jeremiah - Jeremiah - wringing hands - with scroll

Scene Description: seen here on the left

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_186.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - the book of Jonah - Jonah - with scroll or banderole - with book - with fish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_184.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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Old Testament - the book of Joshua (Josue) - wearing armour - holding shield and sword - holding scroll

Scene Description: seen here on the right, his attire very much in the fashion contemporary with the font

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design element - architectural - arcade - traceried arch-heads

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_180.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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design element - motifs - moulding and piping

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_180.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_180.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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inscription - partial

Scene Description: "EXTRUCTUM AN[n]O VIRGINEI PARTUS 1418 1565"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_186.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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inscription - partial

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bad Urach, Stiftskirche St. Amandus,. Taufstein, Detail" -- "EXTRUCTUM AN[n]O VIRGINEI PARTUS 1418 1565"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2014 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St_Amandus_Taufstein_03.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bad Urach, Exterior of Stiftskirche St. Amandus"

Image Source: digital photograph 31 August 2022 by PiotrMig [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach,_Exterior_of_Stiftskirche_St._Amandus.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bad Urach, Kirchturm der Stiftskirche St. Amandus"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2014 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_Kirchturm_2.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bad Urach, Interior of Stiftskirche St. Amandus"

Image Source: digital photograph 31 August 2022 by PiotrMig [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach,_Interior_of_Stiftskirche_St._Amandus.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_180.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

Image Source: digital photograph 11 February 2020 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_Urach_St._Amandus_Taufbecken_182.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach im Landkreis Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg/Deutschland), Taufbecken von 1518"

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche Bad Urach, Taufstein"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 31 August 2022 by PiotrMig [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche_Bad_Urach,_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 11 March 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 14556URA

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Stiftskirche St. Amandus in Bad Urach

Church Patron Saints: St. Amand [aka Amandus]

Church Location: Gabriel-Biel-Platz 2, 72574 Bad Urach, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7125 948710

Country Name: Germany

Location: Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the 28-465 croassroads, 14 km E of Reutlingen

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Konstanz

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Taufkapelle [moved to its present location from the nave in 1865]

Date: 1518

Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic? / Early Renaissance?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Christoph von Urach

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention

Church Notes: church here documented ca. 1100; ca. 1150 church dedicated to St. Mary, St. Andrew and St. Amandus; re-built 14thC; re-built ca. 1500; renovated 1896-1901, with later renovations

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lübke (1870) notes an "artistic and most beautiful" Gothic font with figural ornamention in this church, made by Martin Christoph. Documented in Hans-Dieter Ingenhoff's Der Taufstein des Christoph von Urach, in Friedrich Schmid's: Die Amanduskirche in Bad Urach. Hrsg. im Auftrag des Vereins zur Erhaltung der Amanduskirche e. V. (1990, p. 111–119). The font is described and illustrated in Der Taufstein des Christoph von Urach, 1518 [http://www.kirchen-panoramen.de/amanduskirche bad urach/bu_aman_info_taufstein.htm] [accessed 11 March 2023]: "Rund zwanzig Jahre nach der prächtigen Kanzel entstand in Urach ein weiteres Meisterwerk der schwäbischen Spätgotik, der Taufstein. Anders als bei der Kanzel müssen wir hier jedoch über den Meister nicht spekulieren - und dafür hat er selbst gesorgt, indem er obige Inschrift in die Kehle des Beckenrandes gemeißelt hat. Und da das Zepter des in einem der acht Felder dargestellten Statthalters Joseph direkt auf das Wort "Christophorum" in dieser Inschrift zeigt, vermutet man, in der Figur des Joseph sogar ein Selbstbildnis des Meisters zu sehen [...] Die "Taufkapelle" in der der Taufstein heute steht ist übrigens nicht der Platz, an dem er ursprünglich aufgestellt wurde. Zwar ist diese Kapelle schon zusammen mit der Kirche entstanden, hat aber wohl einen Altar enthalten. Der Taufstein stand urprünglich im Hauptschiff und wurde erst 1865 in diese Kapelle versetzt". Eight Old Testament demi-figures are represented on the sides of the font, each with a scroll that contains a verse related to baptism: King David with his harp, Moses with his horns carries the tablets, Joseph, Joshua, Jonah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, and King Salomon.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.4928, 9.39722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 29′ 34.08″ N, 9° 23′ 49.99″ E

UTM: 32U 529348 5371151

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: many other inscription on the scrolls, each contatining a verse related to baptism

Inscription Location: the main inscription around the upper rim; all others on the scrolles on the sides

Inscription Text: "EXTRUCTUM AN[n]O VIRGINEI PARTUS 1418 1565 PRIDIE KALENDAS MAIAS PER ME CHRISTOPHORUM STATOVA RIVEM CIVEM VRACH SEM"

Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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