Emmerich No. 1 / Embrica / Emmerich am Rhein

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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 - 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 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)

Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-100-1923 / PD-scan (PD-old-100-1923)

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 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 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 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 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

FontID: 20686EMM
Church/Chapel: Patholische Pfarrkirche St. Aldegundis
Church Patron Saints: St. Aldegund [aka Aldegonde, Adelgunde. Adelgundis, Aldegonde, Aldegundis]
Church Location: Kaßstraße, 46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located NE of Kleve, NW of Kalkar, near the border with the Netherlands
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Font Location in Church: Inisde the church, in the Seitenschiff off the N aisle
Century and Period: 9th - 10th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and modern font
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;
Dehlio (1912) mentions no font in St. Aldegundis [NB: we have no information on the font of the medieval church here]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.83, 6.245222
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49' 48" N, 6° 14' 42.8" E
UTM: 32U 310185 5745719

REFERENCES

Dehio, Georg, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: [Bd.5] Nordwestdeutschland, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1912