Bonn No. 1

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - acanthus

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Silvia Schlegel

Copyright Instructions: image and permission received (e-mail of 9 September 2011)

BU01: design element - motifs - interlace - varied

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Silvia Schlegel

Copyright Instructions: image and permission received (e-mail of 9 September 2011)

UB01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: on both the capitals and the bases of the outer colonnettes of the base

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Silvia Schlegel

Copyright Instructions: image and permission received (e-mail of 9 September 2011)

UB02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: on both the capitals and the bases of the central shaft and outer colonnettes of the base

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Silvia Schlegel

Copyright Instructions: image and permission received (e-mail of 9 September 2011)

view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bonn, Kölnstraße 31, ehemalige Stiftskirche. Die neogotische Basilika vom Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde von dem Kölner Architekten Heinrich Wiethase erbaut"

Image Source: digital photograph 28 June 2011 by HOWI - Horsch, Willy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_St._Johannes_Baptist_und_Petrus_in_Bonn.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche Sankt Johann Baptist und Petrus in Bonn"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2015 by Axel Kirch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche-23.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph taken by Silvia Schlegel

Copyright Instructions: image and permission received (e-mail of 9 September 2011)

view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken der ehemaligen (Abbruch 1881), barocken Stiftskirche Sankt Johann Baptist und Petrus in Bonn"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 February 2018 by HOWI - Horsch, Willy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_St._Johannes_Baptist_und_Petrus_in_Bonn._Taufbecken_der_Vorgängerkirche.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche Sankt Johann Baptist und Petrus in Bonn" -- the neo-Gothic font

Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2015 by Axel Kirch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche-27.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche Sankt Johann Baptist und Petrus in Bonn"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2015 by Axel Kirch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche-25.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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view of font cover - finial

Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche Sankt Johann Baptist und Petrus in Bonn"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 December 2015 by Axel Kirch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stiftskirche-28.jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Das aus Fragmenten rekonstruierte, in das Jahr 1290 datierte Taufbecken der ehemaligen Vorgängerkirchen und der heutigen Stiftskirche Sankt Johann Baptist und Petrus in Bonn"

Image Source: digital photograph 25 February 2018 by HOWI - Horsch, Willy [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilika_St._Johannes_Baptist_und_Petrus_in_Bonn._Taufbecken_aus_Basaltlava_(um_1290).jpg] [accessed 17 November 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17664BON

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche / Stiftskirche St. Johann Baptist und Petrus

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist & St. Peter

Church Location: Stiftsgasse 14, Dietkirche, 53111 Bonn -- Tel.: (02 28) 63 48 48

Country Name: Germany

Location: Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: This Dietkirche is located about 1 km N of Bonn zentrum

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1290?

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Late Romanesque / Transitional?

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar in design to the fonts of the Bodmin group fonts in Cornwall, Britain

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Silvia Schlegel for her photograph of this old font

Church Notes: Baroque church demolished 1881; neo-Gothic church

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

There are three baptismal fonts in this church [cf. ImagesArea for images of each]. Font 1) Baptismal font reconstructed from surviving fragments dated ca. 1290. Baptismal font consisting of a basin that is hexagonal at the upper rim, with a large roughly hemispherical underbowl decorated with a different loop or collar on each side (braided, scrolled, etc.); the sides proper (the rim) have roundels of acanthus all around, and their angles connect the capitals of the colonnettes that support the font on the outside; there is also a stubby round moulded shaft, round at the top and square at the bottom, that supports the underbowl; the outer colonnettes are plain, but the bases are round to square, with moulding at the top and leaf spurs below. The font rests now with the seven shafts directly on the ground/floor, but it likely that it would have originally has a platfomr of plinth, quite likely hexagonal in shape. There is some similarity of design with other German fonts and with the fonts of the Bodmin group in Cornwall, Britain. Font 2) A wall-mounted ceramic font of the Baroque church that was demolished in 1881; the object consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with figures and symbols between large leaves; it is wall-mounted on a scroll bracket of the same material; the cover is domes; its finial is now broken. Font 3) Baptismal font of stone in neo-Gothic style and probably the one that was introduced when the new church was inaugurated in the late-19th century; it consists of an octagonal basin decorated with an arcade of eight tound arches, each containg a Biblical scene; busy tracery on the underbowl; octagonal pedestal base with trefoiled niches containing standing figures of the Madonna and Child, Apostles and/or saints, each identified by an inscribed scroll at their feet; busy moulded lowerbase, also octagonal. Low-domed metal cover, inscribed and with a dove finial; appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.743075, 7.097726

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 44′ 35.07″ N, 7° 5′ 51.82″ E

UTM: 32U 365787 5622980

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, basalt

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal