Idar-Oberstein No. 1

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - cusped - 6

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Oberstein ca. 1654

Image Source: image of an engraving by Matthäus Merian (1593-1650) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Oberstein_Merian.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Oberstein ca. 1875

Image Source: "Ansicht von Oberstein, ca. 1875. Ölgemälde von van Prooyen" [Albert Jurardus Van Prooyen (1834-1898)]. In Privatbesitz, photographiert mit Erlaubnis des Besitzers. Photo: Gasmann [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VanProuyen.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the dramatic setting of this 'crag church'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2005 by Mduesi [Matthias Düsi] [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Felsenkirche_Idar_Oberstein.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the setting of the church and castle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 February 2007 by E. Peiffer [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idar-Oberstein_Felsenkirche.jpg] [accessed 20 February 2015]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: a view from the church tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2010 by Beckstet [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idar-Oberstein_Felsenkirche_Altar.JPG] [accessed 20 February 2015]

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view of church interior - baptismal dish

Scene Description: late-Gothic? Temptation and Fall [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: 1360-1380? [cf. www.felsenkirche-oberstein.de/Festschrift/Rupp.html [accessed 20 February 2015] for a detailed description]

Image Source: edited image of a modified digital photograph taken 29 March 2010 by Beckstet [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idar-Oberstein_Felsenkirche_Altar.JPG] [accessed 20 February 2015]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Idar-Oberstein – Innenansicht Felsenkirche"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2012 by Edgar El [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Idar-Oberstein_–_Innenansicht_Felsenkirche_-_panoramio_(1).jpg] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19729IDA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Felsenkirche [St. Walburga?]

Church Patron Saints: St. Walburga [aka Walpurgis, Vaubourg]

Church Location: Im Gebück, 55743 Idar-Oberstein, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz

Directions to Site: Located off highway 41, on the S edge of the Hunsrück, on the banks of the Nahe river, SW of Mainz, ESE of Trier

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the gallery

Date: ca. 1500?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church, font and stoup. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font

Church Notes: original church here 1482-1484; patron saint probably St. Walburga, but not confirmation found

Font Notes: Click to view

Listed in Glesius (2013) as a late-Gothic font. The present baptismal font in this church is noted and illustrated in H. Peter Brandt's 'Aus der Geschichte der Felsenkirche' [www.felsenkirche-oberstein.de/html/Festschrift.html] [accessed 20 February 2015], who reports it found in the rubble outside the church and restored to it in 1929, furnished with a new baptismal dish and wooden cover; Brandt (ibid.) reports also a baptismal dish [Taufschale] made of brass by a "Nürnberger Beckenschläger"; this object is now displayed in the museum section of the church [cf. infra]. The font consists of a hexagonal basin decorated with a cusped foiled panel on each side of the basin and underbowl, the piping of the sides continuing down the stem to form rectangular panels there, on a moulded lower base also hexagonal. The wooden cover is low pyramidal, also hexagonal, with a Latin-cross finial; it appears modern. In the display cabinets of this church is a lovely baptismal dish [Taufschale] of the late-Gothic period depicting the Temptation and Fall.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.705361, 7.327861

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 42′ 19.3″ N, 7° 19′ 40.3″ E

UTM: 32U 379435 5507214

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1929? / modern?

Material: wood

Apparatus: no

Notes: hexagonal low-pyramid with arrisses; Latin-cross finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Glesius, Angelika, "Spätgotischer Kirchenbau im alten Erzbistum Trier", 2013