Emmerich No. 1 / Embrica / Emmerich am Rhein
Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Aldegundis_-_in_30_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]
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view of font
Scene Description: the modern font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 August 2016)
view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Островский Александр, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 May 2012 by Островский Александр, Киев [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NRW,_Emmerich_am_Rhein_-_Aldegundiskirche_01.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: the re-built church after its almost total destruction by Allied bombing in WWII
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 June 2016 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 1 August 2016)
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the church of St. Aldegundis is identified in this 1647 map as no. 19; the tower with the tall pinnacle that no longer exists
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital scan by www.digitalis.uni-koeln.de/digitaletexte.html, from Topographia Westphaliae (Westphalen, 1647) by Matthäus Merian the Elder (1593–1650)
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view of church interior - nave - looking northwest
Scene Description: across the nave and north aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Aldegundis_-_in_14_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Aldegundis_-_in_18_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]
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view of stoup
Scene Description: modern wall-mounted stoup
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Frank Vincentz, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Aldegundis_-_in_40_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 20686EMM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th - 10th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Aldegundis Emmerich
Font Location in Church: Inisde the church, in the Seitenschiff off the N aisle
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Aldegund [aka Aldegonde, Adelgunde. Adelgundis, Aldegonde, Aldegundis]
Church Notes: original church perhaps 8thC; documented early 10thC; re-built 15thC; modified through the centuries; almost totally destroyed in WWII; re-built mid-20thC;
Church Address: Kaßstraße, 46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany
Site Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the Rheinpromenade, on the N bank of the Rhein, 11-12 km NE of Kleve, just S of the border with the Netherlands
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Additional Comments: disappeared font? / destroyed font? (the one from the 9th-10thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Dehlio (1912) mentions no font in St. Aldegundis [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 310185 5745719
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.83, 6.245222
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 49' 48" N, 6° 14' 42.8" E
REFERENCES
- Dehio, Georg, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: [Bd.5] Nordwestdeutschland, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1912, p. 116