Koln-Rodenkirchen No. 2 / Köln-Rodenkirchen / Rodenkirchen
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human figure - demi-figure - 4?
Scene Description: located at the 'stops' of the bottom of the stem, one in each angle
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 April 2018 by Arabsalam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodenkirchen_Alt_St_Maternus_Köln_186.jpg] [accessed 10 November 2019]
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symbol - shield - emblem - KS
![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1191110020_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HOWI [Willi Horsch], 2011
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 April 2011 by HOWI [Willy Horsch] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alt_Sankt_Maternus_Köln-Rodenkirchen_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 10 November 2019]
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view of basin and cover
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 April 2018 by Arabsalam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodenkirchen_Alt_St_Maternus_Köln_186.jpg] [accessed 10 November 2019]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ZH, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2010 by ZH [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alt_St._Maternus_Köln-Rodenkirchen.jpg] [accessed 10 November 2019]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption; "Alt Sankt Maternus Köln-Rodenkirchen. Gothischer Taufstein 1,15 x o,65 m. Einfaches kreisrunders Becken, an dessen Vorderseite ein Schild mit Hausmarken die Buchstaben K. S. zeigt. (Lit. Paul Clemen, Landkreis Köln,S. 175 f.)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © HOWI [Willi Horsch], 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2011 by HOWI [Willy Horsch] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alt_Sankt_Maternus_Köln-Rodenkirchen_Taufstein.JPG] [accessed 10 November 2019]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arabsalam, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 April 2018 by Arabsalam [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rodenkirchen_Alt_St_Maternus_Köln_186.jpg] [accessed 10 November 2019]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22439ROD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Alt St. Maternus Kirche [aka 'Kapellchen'] von Köln-Rodenkirchen
Church Patron Saints: St. Maternus [aka Materianus]
Church Location: Steinstraße 1 / Hauptstraße 19, Köln-Rodenkirchen, 50996 Köln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 221 392360
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off highway 4 and the Köln-Rodenkirchen bridge, on ther W bank of the Rhein, in the SSE suburbs of Cologne
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Köln
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Late Gothic
Church Notes: indications of an Early Christian church with baptismal and burial rights were discovered here in the 1925 excavations; earliest part of the present church may be 10thC; much modified in the 17thC; new church consecrated 18607
Font Notes:
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The old baptismal font of this church is reported in several sources as having been moved to the church of St. Nikolai, in Bandenburg an der Havel [cf. BSI entry Koln-Rodenkirchen No. 1 for that early font of this church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8953, 6.9947
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 43.08″ N, 6° 59′ 40.92″ E
UTM: 32U 358978 5640097
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 65 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 115 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * HOWI [Willi Horsch], 2011
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on a carved shield on the basin front side
Inscription Text: "K S"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes and ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, bronze?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round and almost flat, with carved top and finial; appears modern