Cologne No. 12 / Cologne / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln

Results: 29 records

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - regardant - 2 - engaged at the necks

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - marine monster - coiled tail - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: the tongue is not quite visible in this image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

animal - fabulous animal or monster - marine monster - coiled tail - tongue sticking out

Scene Description: facing right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - facing lions - bicorporate

Scene Description: somehow the heads do not quite merge into each other

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant - facing right

Scene Description: notice the damage to the stone beloww the head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

human figure - head

Scene Description: between the marine monster and the lion passant to the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

human figure - head

Scene Description: between the lion passant on the left and the bicorporate lion on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

human figure - head

Scene Description: between the bicorporate or facing lions on the left, and the winged dragon on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

human figure - head

Scene Description: between a dragon on the left and the marine monster on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of base

Scene Description: the modern base supporting the old basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in June 2007 by Willi Horsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln-Antoniter-Kirche-038.JPG] [accessed 26 June 2019]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0-migrated / CC-BY-2.5

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 November 2016 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antoniterkirche_Köln-4493.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - apse

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2916 by Palickap [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln,_Antoniterkirche,_Innenraum.jpg] [accessed 26 June 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 February 2018 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Antoniterkirche_(Köln)_(02).jpg] [accessed 26 June 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font

Scene Description: showing the side with the lion passant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing three heads, with a marine monster in the left panel, and a lion passant in the right one

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 October 2009 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Köln_Antoniterkirche_Taufstein2.JPg] [accessed 26 June 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC0 1.0 / CC-Zero

view of font and cover

showing three of the heads and, on the left panel, a lion, on the right a bicorporate lion, although the head appears to be two joined -- the cover and the pedestal base are modern

Scene Description: showing three of the heads and, on the left panel, a lion, on the right a bicorporate lion, although the head appears to be two joined -- the cover and the pedestal base are modern

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the dragon on the left and the marine monster on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 October 2016 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 June 2019)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font and cover - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font and cover - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font and cover - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font and cover - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font and cover - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font and cover in context - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 February 2020 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 15731COL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Antoninekirche [originally a monastery church]

Church Patron Saints: St. Anthony the Great [aka Antony the Great, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, Anthony of Thebes]

Church Location: Schildergasse 57, Köln-Altstadt-Nord, 50667 Köln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 92584615

Country Name: Germany

Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located on Schildergasse, just N of Cäcilienstraße, in the historical centre of Cologne

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Köln

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of S aisle

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only?], Medieval / composite

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this font

Church Notes: present church 1350-1378; re-built early 1800s; badly damaged in 1942 Allied bombings; re-built 1946-1952; restored several times thereafter

Font Notes: Click to view

Colonia Romanica X (1995), p. 65, states that the original church did not have a baptismal font because it was a "Bettelordenskirche" [NB: a reason that could be argued, since medieval monasteries and convents did have fonts to celebrate the Holy Week Liturgy of the Water], and informs that the present Namur font, the origin of which had not been recorded, was given by the Museum Schnütgen to the Antoninekirche community [NB: it is more likely that whatever font there was in the original church was lost at some point in its long history]. Baptismal font consisting of a round basin with human heads at 90-degree angles and tapering sides populated by a number of beast and fabulous animals: lion passant --> bicorporate lion or two facing lions --> dragon couchant-regardant --> reptilian beast with coiled tail and long hanging tongue; the huma heads are stylised and individualised; raised on a plain cylindrical stem, and a round-to-square lower base with a thick moulding and spurs at the anglesl the whole of the vase is a modern replacement. The metal cover is round and made of two steps, the sides of which are decorated with floral and foliated motifs; the finial, also done in metal, appears to be an ornate 'A' with a halo around the top; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.936306, 6.953153

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 10.7″ N, 6° 57′ 11.35″ E

UTM: 32U 356183 5644737

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]