Nittel / Nëttel / Nitele

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: re-built in the 18thC, expanded in the 20thC

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2015 by Colin Smith

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2015 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 26 June 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 19907NIT

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Kath. Nitteler Pfarrkirche St. Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Kirchenweg, 54453 Nittel, Germany -- Tel.: 06584 / 365

Country Name: Germany

Location: Trier-Saarburg, Rheinland-Pfalz

Directions to Site: Located 25 km S of Trier, in the the Verbandsgemeinde Konz, near the border with Luzembourg

Historical Region: Upper Moselle River region

Date: ca. 1030?

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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font

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

Font Notes: Click to view

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].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.655474, 6.443785

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 39' 19.7`3" N, 6° 26' 37.67" E