Bamberg No. 6 / Babenberg / Bambärch / Castrum Babenberch
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Scene Description: the third modern font
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view of font and cover
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204037_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: one of three modern fonts in this church; it appears to be the one in use
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Scene Description: modern font
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view of font and cover
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141214021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 3 December 2014)
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: the third modern font
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view of church exterior - detail
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2011 by Tilman2007 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_St_Stephan_015.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2014]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the third modern font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI
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view of font and cover in context
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204036_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of church interior - west gallery and organ loft
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
![the modern font is use can be seen at the back, to the left [north] of the altar](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204034_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font is use can be seen at the back, to the left [north] of the altar
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view of font in context
Scene Description: modern font
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 June 2011 by Tilman2007 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bamberg_St_Stephan_005.JPG] [accessed 16 November 2014]
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view of font cover - detail
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204042_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font cover - detail
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204041_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font cover - detail
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font cover - detail
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204039_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font cover - detail
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1171204038_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
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view of font - cover - finial
![the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141214022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 August 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 3 December 2014)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19503BAM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1020?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (early?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-Lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Stephan [aka Stephanskirche]
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Stephen
Church Notes: church originally 1020; present building oldest part is 13thC tower, otherwise chiefly 17thC
Church Address: Stephansplatz 4, 96049 Bamberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 951 5193160
Site Location: Oberfranken, Bayern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located N of road 22, W of Hwy. 73, about 50 km NNW of Nuremberg; the church is located S of the Altstadt
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Bamberg
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original ca.1020 church here)
Font Notes:
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[NB: we have no information from the font of the original ca.1020 church here] The present font, of 1986, is described and illustrated in the parish web site [www.stephanskirche.de/sites/www.stephanskirche.de/files/dokumente/Englisch.pdf] [accessed 14 December 2014]: "Thought provoking and provocative, modern art. The baptism[al] fon[t] (Jürgen Goertz 1986). The infant Jesus sits naked on a metal ball. The golden orb
in his lap is a symbol for his power, but this child also suffers. He has an open back and a hydrocephalus. His body shows finger marks all over. His eyes stare out into the world and see the suffering. His half-open mouth seems to scream out all of the pain he sees and feels. God becomes human through Jesus. He sits naked and exposed in the middle of a cold world. With a disproportionally long finger housed in a glove too big for his tiny hand, the child points to the cross on the altar. One possible interpretation: The artist has melded Christmas and the Passion into a single dramatic statement. The newly born Christmas child is from the outset the suffering Christ. His life and purpose is unimaginable without the cross. God approaches us by sending Jesus directly into the depths of human suffering." On-site notes: there are actually three fonts in this church, all modern; the font mentioned above is located in a side chapel; it consists of a plain wooden base with a metal (?) top that is both basin and cover; the figure described above sits on the dome cover; there is another font, also of wood, with painted panels, in the nave; both these fonts appear to be disused; the font in use now [October 2017] appears to be one made of stone, consisting of a round tapering basin with graded moulding, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; wooden cover with orb-and-cross finial; modern.
in his lap is a symbol for his power, but this child also suffers. He has an open back and a hydrocephalus. His body shows finger marks all over. His eyes stare out into the world and see the suffering. His half-open mouth seems to scream out all of the pain he sees and feels. God becomes human through Jesus. He sits naked and exposed in the middle of a cold world. With a disproportionally long finger housed in a glove too big for his tiny hand, the child points to the cross on the altar. One possible interpretation: The artist has melded Christmas and the Passion into a single dramatic statement. The newly born Christmas child is from the outset the suffering Christ. His life and purpose is unimaginable without the cross. God approaches us by sending Jesus directly into the depths of human suffering." On-site notes: there are actually three fonts in this church, all modern; the font mentioned above is located in a side chapel; it consists of a plain wooden base with a metal (?) top that is both basin and cover; the figure described above sits on the dome cover; there is another font, also of wood, with painted panels, in the nave; both these fonts appear to be disused; the font in use now [October 2017] appears to be one made of stone, consisting of a round tapering basin with graded moulding, raised on a plain cylindrical pedestal base; wooden cover with orb-and-cross finial; modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs ofone of the modern fonts
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 635487 5527917
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.8883, 10.8862
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 53′ 17.88″ N, 10° 53′ 10.32″ E