Pfaffenheim / Pfaffinheim / Phaffinhein
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Alsace, Haut-Rhin, Église Saint-Martin (XIIIe-XIXe) de Pfaffenheim [...] Fonts baptismaux." -- the modern font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Hammann, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2011 by Ralph Hammann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin19.JPG] [accessed 6 July 2023]
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view of font - west side
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bénitier de l'église "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Espirat, 2021
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 June 2021 by Espirat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bénitier._Pfaffenheim.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin16.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernard Chenal, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Bernard Chenal [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffenheim]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vue sur le chevet roman et la nef néo-gothique".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin03.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
![Source caption: "Pfaffenheim, Eglise Saint-Martin, Vue de la nef vers la tribune d'orgue" -- the reconstructed font at the far [west] end of the centre aisle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1170821015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfaffenheim, Eglise Saint-Martin, Vue de la nef vers la tribune d'orgue" -- the reconstructed font at the far [west] end of the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin34.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfaffenheim, Eglise Saint-Martin, Vue intérieure de la nef vers le choeur néo-gothique".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin05.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: towards the west end of the nave
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin16.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bernard Chenal, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 March 2009 by Bernard Chenal [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffenheim]
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - holding up its tails
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rh-67, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 17 August 2011 by Rh-67 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pfaffenheim_StMartin16.jpg] [accessed 21 August 2017]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the modern font in the centre; the holy-water tank to the right of it
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]
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view of base - detai
Scene Description: one of the sides of the base: a crouching monster?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: one of the sides of the base: a crouching monster?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: one of the sides of the old base: a siren holding up its tails
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: one of the sides of the old base: a feline?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n.], 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 1 June 2021 [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman]
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animal - mammal - lion - 3
Scene Description: one of the sides of the old base
INFORMATION
Font ID: 17248PFA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century [lower base only], Medieval [composite]
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale Saint-Martin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Address: 13 Pl. de la Mairie, 68250 Pfaffenheim, France
Site Location: Haut-Rhin, Grand Est, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the RN83, 3 km N of Rouffach, in the canton Rouffach, arrondissement Guebwiller
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Starsbourg
Historical Region: Alsace
Additional Comments: altered font (re-constructed using a modern basin, a concrete stem and a medieval object, the base of either a font or a pillar -- it appears to be used as a stoup towards the west-end entrance)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font reconstructed using the basin and base of a medieval font; listed in Palissy [ref.: PM68001317]: "Socle en grès rose supportant la cuve par l'intermédiaire d'un pilier de section carrée en ciment [...] Le socle présente quatre faces dont l'une est ornée d'une sirène à deux queues qu'elle tient dans ses mains. Sur les trois autres faces, trois lions se suivent dans la même direction [...] Le socle, datable du début du 13e siècle, comme le choeur de l'église. Il s'agirait soit d'un socle de cuve baptismale soit d'une base de pilier architectural. La cuve est moderne." The second entry in Palissy [ref.: IM68007603] mentions Muller-Dietrich's identification of the base as that of a pillar: "Base sculptée qui pourrait avoir soutenu des fonts baptismaux, bien que cela soit assez hypothétique ; d'après Muller-Dietrich cette base proviendrait plutôt d'un pilier architectural. Elle peut être datée de la même époque que le choeur roman, c'est-à-dire du 1er quart du 13e siècle. Actuellement elle porte un pilier en ciment et une cuve moderne." There are actually two baptismal fonts in the church of Saint-Martin: a modern one consisting of an ornate cylindrical basin raised on five shafts with couchant lions below, on an octagonal lower base; the metal (?) cover is round and flat, with a decorated top; it is located in one of the chapels. Braun (2010) notes and illustrates the base of a baptismal font which she suggests is Romanesque; the red sandstone block of roughly square shape, decorated on three of its sides with lions and with a siren holding its tails at head level on the fourth; the block is very weathered, and the details of the carving are quite faint. [NB: the older parts of the church date from the early 12th-13th century; the old font base may be of that period]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 372087 5316033
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.9848, 7.28572
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 59′ 5.28″ N, 7° 17′ 8.59″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)
Height of Base: 40 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 70 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Palissy [ref.: IM68007603] / ** Palissy [ref.: PM68001317]: "h = 110 ; d = 95 ; la = 62"
REFERENCES
- Braun, Suzanne, Alsace romane, Dijon: Faton, 2010, p. 393