Duderstadt No. 1

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Christ

Scene Description: in a medallion: wearing the crown of thorns

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Christ

Scene Description: in a medallion

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Virgin Mary

Scene Description: in a medallion: praying

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Virgin Mary

Scene Description: in a medallion

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: a very thick one

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design element - motifs and patterns - varied

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human figure - demi-figure

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human figure - putti - 6

Scene Description: on the sides of the pedestal base

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view of church exterior - west view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 November 2017 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duderstadt,_Bei_der_Oberkirche,_Oberkirche_20171110_-003.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2019]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolkenkratzer, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 July 2013 by Wolkenkratzer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duderstadt_-_St._Cyriakus.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick auf den Hauptaltar im Hochchor nach den Renovierungsarbeiten (2016) mit folgenden Apostelfiguren: Linke Seite (von hinten in Richtung Altar) Jakobus der Jüngere Jakobus der Ältere Paulus Jesus als guter Hirte Simon Matthäus Matthias Rechte Seite (von hinten in Richtung Altar) Bartholomäus Johannes Andreas Petrus Maria Philippus Thomas Judas Thaddäus"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefan Burchard, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2016 by Stefan Burchard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirchenraum_mit_Blick_auf_Hochaltar.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2019]

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view of church interior - railing - detail

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view of church interior - railing - detail

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view of church interior - railing - detail

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view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franzfoto, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Franzfoto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duderstadt_-_Taufbecken_der_Kirche_St._Cyriakus.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2019

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: showing the font and context before the 2016 rearrangement of the interior space

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franzfoto, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Franzfoto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duderstadt_-_Taufbecken_der_Kirche_St._Cyriakus.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2019

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Duderstadt -Taufbecken der Kirche St.Cyriakus"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franzfptp, 2011

Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2011 by Franzfoto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duderstadt_-_Taufbecken_der_Kirche_St._Cyriakus.JPG] [accessed 29 January 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

Scene Description: Baptism of Christ finial

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Franzfoto, 2011

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2011 by Franzfoto [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duderstadt_-_Taufbecken_der_Kirche_St._Cyriakus.JPG] [accessed 3 March 2019

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view of font cover - pulley and counterweight - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Figurengruppe des barocken Taufsteins (nach der Renovierung 2016)"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefan Burchard, 2016

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 November 2016 by Stefan Buchard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barocker_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22004DUD
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Basilika [Propsteikirche] St. Cyriakus [aka Eichsfelder Dom]
Church Patron Saints: St. Cyricus [aka Cyriacus, Quiriac, Quiricus, Cyr]
Church Location: Bei der Oberkirche 2, 37115 Duderstadt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5527 84740
Country Name: Germany
Location: Göttingen, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off (E) road 247, in the old town centre, 30 km E of Göttingen, near the county border with Thuringia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1694
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original Romanesque church of which nothing remains; present church started 1240; many later modifications, re-buildings, etc.
Baptismal font made of marble in 1694; it consists of a hexagonal basin with rounded underbowl raised on a hexagonal pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with a combination of mouldings; the sides of the underbowl have large medallions inscrbing busts of Christ, Mary, etc., in the centre, and demi-figures at the angles [one of these lacking]; the upper base has six putti in a very thick vine; the lower base is moulded. Hexagonal wooden font cover with standing putti and scroll ribs on the lower section, a Baptism of Christ scene in the finial position. The whole is surrounded by a wooden raiiling that has human demi-figures at the corners.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.512612, 10.263816
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 30′ 45.4″ N, 10° 15′ 49.74″ E
UTM: 32U 587699 5707589

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]