Boppard No. 1
Image copyright © M. Thoma, 2014
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Results: 9 records
view of church exterior - portal - detail
Scene Description: the main portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christian Kipping, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 February 2012 by Christian Kipping [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Figur_am_Hauptportal_der_St.-Severus-Kirche_in_Boppard.JPG] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: ca. 1840
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: steel engraving ca. 1840 from "Views of the Rhine" by William Tombleson (1795-1846) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tombleson_Boppard_Church.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luidger, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 October 2006 by Luidger [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20061008-Boppard_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Scene Description: St. Severuskirche and the old Rathaus in the Marketplatz
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedelecs, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 June 2010 by Pedelecs [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boppard_St-Severus_725-fh.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church interior - chancel - Holy Rood
Scene Description: ca. 1225-1230?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © eugenen, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 30 July 2013 by eugenen [www.flickr.com/photos/63628468@N00/9433644676/] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Holger Weinandt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 October 2009 by Holger Weinandt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St-Severus_Boppard_Innenraum_2009.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of font
Scene Description: the scale and depth of the font can be appreciated here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Suzanne Breitbach, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Suzanne Breitbach in Rhein-Zaitung 07.07.2011 [www.rhein-zeitung.de/cms_media/module_img/764/382177_1_popup_382177_1_org_taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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view of font
Scene Description: the Early Christian piscina located beneath the nave, near the main entrance
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Werner Dupuis, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Werner Dupuis; in Wolfgang Wendling's article 'Aus den Anfängen des christlichen Abendlands', with a photograph by Werner Dupuis, in the on-line Rhein-Zeitung [www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/die-303-magischen-orte_artikel,-Aus-den-Anfaengen-des-christlichen-Abendlands-_arid,1064240.html#.U7HhtSgvKZR] [accessed 30 June 2014]
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © M. Thoma, 2014
Image Source: photograph by M. Thoma [www.regionalgeschichte.net/typo3temp/pics/e28b9974f6.jpg] [accessed 29 June 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 19316BOP
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Severus / Severuskirche [font from the 5th-6thC basilica here]
Church Patron Saints: St. Severus of Ravenna
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rhein-Hunsrück, Rheinland-Pfalz
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Font Location in Church: Beneath the nave, near the main entrance
Century and Period: 5th century (late?), Early Christian
Church Notes: remains of an Early Christian church of the late-5th or early-6thC; present church built in 12th-13thC, consecrated 1237; restored 1960s, and baptistery discovered; restored 1990s and 2010s
Font Notes:
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Noted in Wolfgang Wendling's article 'Aus den Anfängen des christlichen Abendlands', with a photograph by Werner Dupuis, in the on-line Rhein-Zeitung [www.rhein-zeitung.de/region/die-303-magischen-orte_artikel,-Aus-den-Anfaengen-des-christlichen-Abendlands-_arid,1064240.html#.U7HhtSgvKZR] [accessed 30 June 2014]. A late late-5th century baptistery excavated between 1963 and 1966 beneath the church of St. Severus, with a heptagonal baptismal piscina with a round inner well that is 50 cm in diameter at its narrowest; there is a large drain hole in the bottom, close to a side; four of the original seven 'wings' of the font are still intact, but the other three were affected by the construction of the walls around it; the remaing 'wings' show holes that may have served to accommodate the pillars of a canopy above the piscina. The piscina was at the west end of the original basilica, built here in the late-5th century by the earlier Roman baths.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.232306, 7.591472
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 13′ 56.3″ N, 7° 35′ 29.3″ E
UTM: 32U 399544 5565409
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: heptagonal [sunken piscina]
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: heptagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 50 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]