Habenscheid
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view of font - east side
Scene Description: [orientation is approximate]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Warburg [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habenscheid_font.JPG] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: the arch-ends with simple capitals
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Warburg [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habenscheid_font.JPG] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: in some of the spandrels of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Warburg [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habenscheid_font.JPG] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johannes Robalotoff, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2009 by Johannes Robalotoff [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche-Habenscheid-JR-G6-3792-2009-08-06.jpg] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![with the old font in the foreground, left [north] side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140630025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: with the old font in the foreground, left [north] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Warburg [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habenscheid_5.JPG] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Warburg, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 July 2013 by Warburg [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Habenscheid_font.JPG] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the metal bracket for the baptismal dish
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfgang Jakupka, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfgang Jakupka [www.jakupka.de/cramberg.html] [accessed 30 June 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19315HAB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Feldkirche Habenscheid
Font Location in Church: inside the church, at the E end of the nave
Church Notes: church probably originally of the 10thC, much altered through the centuries; renovated in early-19thC; abandoned in early 20thC for a new church, but building still in use
Church Address: Hof Habenscheid 1, 56370 Wasenbach, Germany
Site Location: Rhein-Lahn, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L323, in the municipality and 1-2 km ENE of Wasenbach, 10 km SE of Limburg an der Lahn
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Limburg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the 10thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Carolina's Collection of Castles, Churches and Curiosities [http://www.hic-sunt-dracones.de/CCC2/feldkirche_h.html] [accessed 19 September 2023] as a Romanesque baptismal font in the chancel. Baptismal font said to be of basalt; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with an arcade of round arch-heads deeply carved on the sides; above the arcade and in its spandrels are floral and/or foliage motifs [NB: there are parts of the upper sides that are plain; not certain whether originally left uncarved, or a result of damage and repairs]. As is common in these parts, a baptismal dish is used for baptisms, and the font has a metal frame or bracket on it to hold the dish in place.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help documenting this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 427578 5575173
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.3242, 7.9826
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 19' 27.12" N, 7° 58' 57.36" E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, basalt
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round