Worms / Vormatia
Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2017
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Results: 23 records
Christ - Christ in Majesty - with book in left hand - right hand raised in benediction
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RDK/Kunstgesch. Seminar, Marburg, 2009
Image Source: RDK digital scan of a B&W photograph original [ca. 1937?] from the Kunstgeschichte Seminar, Marburg
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Old Testament - prophets? (or Doctors (Fathers) of the Church?) - 7
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colum Hourihane, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by Colum Hourihane
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 3 October 2012)
animal - mammal - lion - sejant-gardant - 4
Scene Description: Source caption: "Eine der vier stützenden Löwenfiguren am Sockel des Taufsteines."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Camrade obscura, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 August 2015 by Camrade obscura [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Taufstein_Detail_Löwenfigur.JPG] [accessed 10 July 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colum Hourihane, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by Colum Hourihane
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 3 October 2012)
design element - motifs - tree-like
Scene Description: tree-like frames for the human figures holding scrolls
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colum Hourihane, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by Colum Hourihane
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 3 October 2012)
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rechte Seite mit drei Prophetenfiguren."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Camrade obscura, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 August 2015 by Camrade obscura [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Taufstein_Detail_2.JPG] [accessed 10 July 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Rückseite mit drei Prophetenfiguren"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Camrade obscura, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 August 2015 by Camrade obscura [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Taufstein_Detail_3.JPG] [accessed 10 July 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Source captio: ":Linke Seite mit drei Prophetenfiguren."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Camrade obscura, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 August 2015 by Camrade obscura [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Taufstein_Detail_4.JPG] [accessed 10 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2007 by Mattana [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worms_Dom_st_peter_005.JPG] [accessed 27 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © AndreasThum, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2011 by AndreasThum [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WormserDomNordost.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Felix König, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2009 by Felix König [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_2009.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 December 2007 by Mattana [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worms_Dom_st_peter_004.JPG] [accessed 27 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an 1890 B&W photograph [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Suedportal_von_1890.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Die Rückseite der Figur Frau Welt rechts neben dem Südportal des Wormser Doms in Rheinland-Pfalz (Deutschland)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jivee Blau, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by Jivee Blau [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worms-_Dom-_Südportal-_Frau_Welt-_Rückseite_11.8.2010.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Figur Frau Welt rechts neben dem Südportal des Wormser Doms in Rheinland-Pfalz (Deutschland)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jivee Blau, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by Jivee Blau [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worms-_Dom-_Südportal-_Frau_Welt_10.8.2010.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an 1832 B&W photograph by Ludwig Lange [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Ludwig_Lange_1832.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the main altar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Willy Horsch, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 April 2014 by Willy Horsch [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochaltar_im_Westchor_des_Wormser_Domes_.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heidas, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2005 by Heidas [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worms_Doom_2005-05-27c.jpg] [accessed 27 April 2014]
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view of font - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: Baptismal font (detail)-Worms Cathedral, Worms, Germany
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 14 July 2017 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font_(detail)_-_Worms_Cathedral_-_Worms_-_Germany_2017.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
![with the modern cover [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140427024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the modern cover [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colum Hourihane, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 August 2012 by Colum Hourihane
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 3 October 2012)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedrich Haag, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 30 December 2016 by Friedrich Haag [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Worms_Domplatz_1_007_2016_12_30.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein aus der 1807 abgetragenen Johanneskirche, neben dem Wormser Dom. Heute in der Nikolauskapelle des Domes befindlich."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Camrade obscura, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 23 August 2015 by Camrade obscura [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wormser_Dom_Taufstein_frontal.jpg] [accessed 10 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: ca. 1937? -- the cover was different from the present one and the font was located in a pit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ansichtskarten Center, 2009
Image Source: ca. 1920 sepia post-card listed in www.ansichtskarten-center.de
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 14996WOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Wormser Dom [former cathedral; minor basilica since 1925]
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Domplatz, 67547 Worms, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6241 6115
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rheinhessen-Pfalz, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located 60 km SSW of Frankfurt-am-Main -- the cathedral is located in the old city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: [formerly Fürstbistum Worms]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Niklauskapelle [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1480-1490?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: the font at Guntersblum
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colum Hourihane, of the Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, for his photographs of this font. We are grateful to Pol Herman for the additional information related to the claimed baptistery
Church Notes: Johanneskirche of ca. 1170; first documented ca. 1200; demolished 1807, font transferred to the Dom
Font Notes:
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Didron (1859) informs that this font was originally in the west choir but was moved later into a chapel on the south side. The font consists of an octagonal basin decorated with eight hieratic figures, one of whom is haloed and holds a book in his left hand, the right hand raised in benediction; the seven other figures are holding, or being circled in, scrolls, while the figures are inscribed in tree-like frames. The basin is raised on a square base that has sedente lions looking outwards at the corners. An early photograph of ca. 1937 in the Kunstgeschichte Seminar, Marburg, shows the font topped with a low-dome metal cover of octagonal shape, moulded on the sides; the present metal cover is modern, domed with a cross-shaped opening, and has a modern cruciferous finial.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 30 October 2022) contains information of the claimed baptistery unearthed in 2015: "Some sources speak of a baptistery that was started by Bishop Burchard at the beginning of the 11th century parallel to the construction of the cathedral and was completed in 1110 under Bishop Ebbo. Its location is completely unclear. This baptistery cannot have been the later St. John the Baptist's Church, as the latter is more than half a century younger. During construction work on the newly planned Haus am Dom in 2015, the floor and the foundations of a large, walk-in baptismal font were found. It is thought to be a Merovingian baptistery with an early medieval baptismal piscina. They have been left in place and were integrated in the new Haus am Dom. However: Sebastian Ristow's Christliche Archäologie in Bodendenkmalpflegeämtern, Stadtarchäologien und kirchlichen Ausgrabungsstätten in Deutschland [952-30-96859-1-10-20220124.pdf] [accessed 30 August 2023] argues that the finding next to the cathedral that was interpreted as a baptistery a few years ago seems to be a modern foundation for another function.
: A finding next to the cathedral that was interpreted as a baptistery a few years ago seems to be a modern foundation for another function.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.630278, 8.359722
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 37′ 49″ N, 8° 21′ 35″ E
UTM: 32U 453762 5497721
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Didron, Ainé, "Bronzes et orfévrerie du Moyen Age", 19, Annales archéologiques, 1859, pp. 5-221; p. 176