Seligenthal / Siegburg-Seligenthal
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view of basin
Scene Description: the old font
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Image Source: illustration in Effmann (1892)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: the old font; the column details are very sketchy
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Image Source: illustration in Effmann (1892)
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seligenthal_Kirche_v_NO.JPG] [accessed 24 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seligenthal_Kirche_v_NW.JPG] [accessed 24 January 2016]
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view of church exterior - west end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seligenthal_Kirche_v_W.JPG] [accessed 24 January 2016]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: the east end of the church in the context of the former convent buildings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Olbertz, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 21 August 2007 by Olbertz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Klosterhof_Seligenthal_(Siegburg).jpg] [accessed 24 January 2016]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: the present font and cover at the east end of the nave, north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seligenthal_Kirche_n_O.JPG] [accessed 24 January 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beckstet, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seligenthal_Kirche_n_O.JPG] [accessed 24 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 20297SEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Pfarrkirche Seligenthal [former church of the Franziskanerkloster Seligenthal]
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: documented by 1231; church of the former convent now parish church
Church Address: Zum Klosterhof 1, 53721 Siegburg/Seligenthal, Germany
Site Location: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L352, 5 km E of Siegburg, 18-20 km NE of Bonn [NOT to be mistaken with Kloster Seligenthal (lat. Abbatia B.M.V. Felicis Vallis) in Landshut, Regensburg, Germany]
Ecclesiastic Region: Erziöcese Köln
Font Notes:
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Ligtenberg (1915: 162) mentions some comparable barrel- or cylindrical-shaped fonts at Eenrum, Kirchhilpe [i.e., Kirchilpe], Seligenthal, Schwarzrheindorf, St-Georg Kirche in Cologne. Noted and illustrated by Effmann (1892). Noted in Drake (2002) as a Rhineland cylindrical font. The basin is cylindrical and decorated with a blind arcade of round arches on columns with sketchy capitals and bases.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 378772 5628902
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.799167, 7.279722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 47′ 57″ N, 7° 16′ 47″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, trachyte
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 13 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 97 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 123 cm*
Basin Depth: 50 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 82 cm*
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 86, 178
- Effmann, Wilhelm, "Alter Taufstein zur Seligenthal", Nr. 9, Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst, 1892, pp. 279-280; p. 279-282
- Ligtenberg, Raphael, "Romaansche doopvonten in Nederland: De hardsteenen vonten", VIII, 2 [Tweede serie], Bulletin van den Nederlandschen Oudheidkundigen Bond, 1915, pp. 154-190, 236-252; p. 162