Karlshausen / Korelsen

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2011
e-mail and permission received (e-mail of 13 November 2011)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church interior - altar and retable
INFORMATION
FontID: 17776KAR
Church/Chapel: Katholisch Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Langgasse 1, 54673 Karlshausen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located in the Neuerburg municipality
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Historical Region: Eifel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 19th century (mid?), Modern
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of the font and church
Church Notes: earlier church demolished 1547; present church 1861
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin decorated with a protruding arcade of trefoiled arches; plain rounded underbowl; slender octagonal stem with tracery; splaying lower base and narrow plinth, both octagonal as well; the font is painted all over. The wooden cover is octagonal, with a fleury cross finial; metal lock.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.023056,
6.225278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 1′ 23″ N,
6° 13′ 31″ E
UTM: 32U 301252 5544883
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]