Emmerich No. 2 / Embrica / Emmerich am Rhein

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angel - 4

Scene Description: one of four siren-like angels (?) on the upper base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Martini_-_in_-_baptismal_font_03_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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angel - cherub - head

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with rosettes, on the lower neck of the font cover

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Martini_-_in_-_baptismal_font_02_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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angel - cherub - head

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with rosettes, on the lower splaing surface of the font cover

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angel - cherub - head

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with rosettes, on the basin side

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angel - cherub - head - 2

Scene Description: alternating with rosettes on the cylindrical part of the lower base

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cleric - bishop - 3

Scene Description: three of them were bishop's mitres; one is a young figure without distinctive garb

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design element - architectural - arcade - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: an ornate arcade with four decorated arch-heads and spandrels

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with cherub heads, on the lower neck of the font cover

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with cherub heads, on the lower splaing surface of the font cover

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with cherub heads, on the basin side

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design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 2

Scene Description: alternating with cherub heads on the cylindrical part of the lower base

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design element - motifs - foliage - 4

Scene Description: scrolled foliage motifs set at 90-degree angles

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: on the cylindrical stem and the upper surface of the splaying lower base

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design element - patterns - ball-in-socket

Scene Description: a circle of them, on the upper surface of the splaying lower base

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

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human figure - male - youth

Scene Description: one of the four figures in the turret finial of the font cover: a young figure without distinctive garb

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Martini_-_in_-_baptismal_font_05_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 October 2003 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Martini_(Kirche)_-_Emmerich_am_Rhein.jpg?uselang=de] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the church of St. Martini is identified in this 1647 map as no. 1, at the extreme left of the panoramic view

view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: the plan illustrates the complexity of the church; the K area is the 15thC 'Seitenschiff', an expansion of the north aisle; the number 48 in it identifies the location of the baptismal font

Image Source: digital image of the interior plan in the Parish site [www.martinikirche.christophorus-emmerich.de] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Martini_-_in_-_baptismal_font_01_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the modern crane used to raise and lower the font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Martini_-_in_-_baptismal_font_05_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2010 by Frank Vincentz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emmerich_-_Sankt_Martini_-_in_-_baptismal_font_02_ies.jpg] [accessed 1 August 2016]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 20687EMM

Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martini

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Martinikirchgang 3, 46446 Emmerich am Rhein, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2822 70520

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: Inside the church, N aisle, W end

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Church Notes: original Romanesque church ca. 1040; damaged and re-built 12th, 14th, 15th, 17thC; re-modelled 19thC; almost totally destroyed bt Allied bombing in WWII; re-built 20thC with some early parts restored later

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Dehlio (1912) reports a 16th-century font made of brass here: "Taufbrunnen, Gelbguß, M. 16. Jh." Un-corroborated information claims the font is Flemish, made in Antwerp between 1531 and 1535, an excellent example decorated with Renaissance motifs; badly damaged in WWII. The font consists of a round basin decorated with cherub heads alternatings with rosettes on the side, all around; this pattern of cherub-rosette repeats itself on several areas of the font cover and also on the base of the font; a moulding marks the division with the underbowl, the latter decorated with a pattern of concave ribs; round pedestal base with four siren-like angels (?) set at 90-degrees of the underbowl; a similar setting exists at the lower base with the four scrolled foliage motifs; the splaying lower base has graded moulding and one band of ball-in-socket pattern. The font cover is an elaborate affair; mid stem and splaying lower end are decorated with rosettes and cherubs as noted above; the upper volume or finial has an open-work tower-like structure with four figures set at 90-degree angles; three of them are clerics dressed in bishop's robes, mitres on their heads, each carrying an object (edifice, book,...); the fourth is a youth without distinctive garb; at the top is the loop that is used by the crane; the metal wall-mounted crane is modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.830619, 6.236497

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 49′ 50.23″ N, 6° 14′ 11.39″ E

UTM: 32U 309586 5745811

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, brass

Font Shape: round - mounted -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th-century?

Material: metal, brass

Apparatus: yes; wall-mouted crane; modern

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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