Bamberg No. 6 / Babenberg / Bambärch / Castrum Babenberch

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the third modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - chancel

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the modern font is use can be seen at the back, to the left [north] of the altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of church interior - west gallery and organ loft

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: the third modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font - cover - finial

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

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 font - upper view

Scene Description: modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

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 font and cover

Scene Description: one of three modern fonts in this church; it appears to be the one in use

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: the 1986 modern font by Jürgen Goertz [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the third modern font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 October 2017 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 19503BAM

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Stephan [aka Stephanskirche]

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: Stephansplatz 4, 96049 Bamberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 951 5193160

Country Name: Germany

Location: Oberfranken, Bayern

Directions to Site: Located about 50 km NNW of Nuremberg

Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Bamberg

Date: ca. 1020?

Century and Period: 11th century (early?), Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs ofone of the modern fonts

Church Notes: church originally 1020; present building oldest part is 13thC tower, otherwise chiefly 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view

[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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.8883, 10.8862

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 53′ 17.88″ N, 10° 53′ 10.32″ E

UTM: 32U 635487 5527917