Nittel / Nëttel / Nitele
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 June 2015)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: re-built in the 18thC, expanded in the 20thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 June 2015)
view of font in context
![the modern font [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150628007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2015 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 June 2015)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 19907NIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Date: ca. 1030?
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (early?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Kath. Nitteler Pfarrkirche St. Martin
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: a church may have been here as early as the 7th or 8thC; documented by 1030; reported as dilapidated in 1755; re-built 1758; expanded 1935
Church Address: Kirchenweg, 54453 Nittel, Germany -- Tel.: 06584 / 365
Site Location: Trier-Saarburg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L135, on the E bank of the Moselle river, 25 km S of Trier, in the the Verbandsgemeinde Konz, near the border with Luzembourg
Historical Region: Upper Moselle River region
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the early-11thC church here)
Font Notes:
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The present font in this church is modern, of veined greenish marble, as is the backdrop to which it appears to be attached (or part of it). [NB: the church is documented back to 1030 but we have no information of the font of that time].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.655474, 6.443785
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 39' 19.7`3" N, 6° 26' 37.67" E