Auerbach / Bensheim-Auerbach / Urbach
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/bilders/taufstein.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription and FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bergkirche Auebach, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/bilders/taufstein.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bergkirche Auebach, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/bilders/taufstein.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kpaugustin, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 July 2012 by Kpaugustin [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergkirche_Auerbach_06.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2014]
Copyright Instructions: Available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication
view of church exterior in context - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Armin Kübelbeck, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 January 2010 by Armin Kübelbeck [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergkirche_Auerbach_02.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2014]
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription and FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bergkirche Auebach, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/bilders/taufstein.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bergkirche Auebach, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/bilders/taufstein.jpg] [accessed 31 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19245AUE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1608
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Bergkirche Auerbach
Font Location in Church: Inside
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: original Romanesque church built by Grafenhaus Katzenelnbogen; present church is 13th century re-building; late-Gothic tower; late-15th nave; renovated ca. 1900
Church Address: Kirchweg 7-9, 64625 Bensheim, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6251 71184
Site Location: Bergstraße, Hessen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located E of roads 3 and 5, 3 km N of Bensheim, 19 km E of Worms, 23 km S of Darmstadt, 35 km N of Heidelberg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original Romanesque church here and/or the 13thC re-building)
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is made of red sandstone and dated by an inscription to 1608; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a broad flat moulding on which is carved an inscripttion that continues on the level below, from which is separated by a roll moulding; ribbed pattern around the underbowl; the base is cylindrical and moulded, and has an inscription around it; both inscriptions are in Latin; the German translation is provided in the parish web site [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/kirche_taufstein.php] [accessed 31 May 2014]: "Im Jahre des Herrn 1608 wurde dieser Taufstein errichtet, als Magister Tobias Plaustarius Pfarrer (an) dieser Kirche Philipp Wentz Schultheiss, Mathaeus Wilch, Jacob Bach, Konrad Mennel, Johann Theobald Weigelt (=Weigold) und Johann Philipp aus Hochstädten Älteste Kirchenvorsteher) waren." Low-dome copper cover of 1982 designed by Hernn Wilhelm Busch. [NB: we have no information on the font of the original Romanesque church or of its 13th-century re-building].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 473072 5505699
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.703202, 8.626553
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 42' 11:53' N, 8° 37' 35.59" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone (red)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: 1. around the basin sides -- 2. around the base sides
Inscription Text: 1. "ANNO D(OMI)NI MDCVIII EXTRUEBATUR HOC BAPTISTERIUM M(AGISTRO) TOBIA PLAUSTRARIO ECC(LESIAE) HUIUS PASTORE PHILIPPO WENTZ PRAET(ORE) MATTHEAEO WILCHEN JACOBO BACH CUNRADO MENNEL JO(HANN)E THEOBADO WEIGELT ET JO(HANN)E PHILIPPO HOFSTETINO SENIORIBUS"
2. "JOHANNE WEIGELT ET JOHANNE MEFFART AEDILIBUS"
Inscription Source: Parish web site [www.bergkirche-auerbach.de/kirche_taufstein.php] [accessed 31 May 2014]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1982 / 20th century (late)
Material: metal, copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]