Ochsenfurt
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol - 4
Scene Description: an odd assemly of the four symbols of the Evangelists at the centre of the base structure, on little raised platforms
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in November 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt_St_Andreas_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel and sword
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel: a crown, a sword handle and a fragment of the weel identify the saint
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
Apostle or saint - female - crowned - haloed - holding chalice and wafer - holding palm?
Scene Description: in the left panel; the chalice-and-wafer symbol is associated with St Barbara, among other saints
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
Human figure - male - bearded - crowned - unidentified
Scene Description: could it be St Cyprianus, one of the two patrons of the earlier church here?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child
Scene Description: seen here in the centre panel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
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animal - mammal - lion - sejant - holding shield - emblem - Evangelists?
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the lower base -- the emblem on each shield appears to relate to one of the Evangelists
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled
Scene Description: in the basin sides panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in November 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt_St_Andreas_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken in November 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt_St_Andreas_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of base - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
view of church exterior - southeast view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2013 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt,_St._Andreas-001.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 1 September 2013 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt,_Stadtpfarrkirche_von_der_Mainbrücke-001.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michielverbeek, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2016 by Michielverbeek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt,_katholische_Pfarrkirche_Sankt_Andreas_DmD-6-79-170-107_foto4_2016-08-07_10.44.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of church interior - baptistery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2011 by Bjs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Andreas-bjs110504-04.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bjs, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 May 2011 by Bjs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Andreas-bjs110504-05.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ochsenfurt, Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Andreas, Taufbecken aus der Nürnberger Vischer-Werkstatt, um 1514/1515; Deckel 1893 von Max Besler (Würzburg)".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken in November 2011 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ochsenfurt_St_Andreas_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 January 2020 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 12 July 2020)
INFORMATION
FontID: 21684OCH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Andreas
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Kirchpl. 1, 97199 Ochsenfurt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9331 8025080
Country Name: Germany
Location: Würzburg, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off highway 13, on the S bank of the Main river, 13 km SSE of Würzburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1514-1515
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Vischer workshop of Nuremberg / heraldic font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: church dedicated to Saints Cyprianus and Sebastian here by 835; new church dedicated to St. Andrew consecrated 1288; present church 14th-15thC with many later modifications
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Kulturhistorische Museum Nürnberg [https://www.nuernberg.museum/projects/show/978-taufbecken-ochsenfurt] [accessed 7 November 2022]. Baptismal font of bronze made in the Vischer-Werkstatt of Nürnberg ca 154/1515; it consists of a octagonal basin with trefoiled panels in which appear the Madonna and Child, St. Catherine of Alexandria, etc.; on a complex base that incorporates the symbols of the four Evangelists in on little platforms in the centre, and sedente lions holding charged shields on the lower base. The font cover, made by Max Bessler in 1893, is an octagonal dome with crocketed arrises' the finial has a a ring to be connected to a pulley end, but it appears to have been disengaged now.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.664239, 10.063434
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 39′ 51.26″ N, 10° 3′ 48.36″ E
UTM: 32U 576742 5501843
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1893
Material: metal
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]