Ingelheim am Rhein / Nieder-Ingelheim / Hengilonheim
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Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Remiguis in Nieder-Ingelheim"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Braceheart09, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2009 by Braveheart09 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StRemigiusSommer2009.JPG] [accessed 20 October 2021]
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view of church exterior - portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ingelheim; district of Mainz-Bingen; Palatinate; Germany"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Pietschmann, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 January 2012 by Robert Pietschmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingelheim-Sankt_Remigius-Kirchturm_von_Westen-Erdgeschoß-romanisches_Portal_in_Übersicht-15012012.JPG] [accessed 20 October 2021]
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Scene Description: Source caption: " Ingelheim, Kirche St. Remigius, Portal" -- this tympanum must have been elsewhere originally
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption; "Ingelheim, Blick vom Bismarckturm zur Kirche St. Remigius'
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bistum Mainz / Schadt Michael, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph by Schadt Michael, in the Bistum Mainz page [https://bistummainz.de/katholische-kirche/ingelheim/orte/st.-remigius-nieder-ingelheim/] [accessed 20 October 2021]
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![the Early-Christian piscina [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1211020001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the Early-Christian piscina [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Archaeologie-Online.de [www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/ein-fruehmittelalterliches-taufbecken-in-ingelheim-entdeckt-2306/] [accessed 20 October 2021]
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view of font in context
![the Early-Christian piscina [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1211020002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the Early-Christian piscina [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph in Archaeologie-Online.de [www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/ein-fruehmittelalterliches-taufbecken-in-ingelheim-entdeckt-2306/] [accessed 20 October 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23483ING
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarkirche St-Remigius und St-Kilian, Nieder-Ingelheim
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy] & St. Kilian
Church Location: Ottonenstrasse 3 / Belzerstraße 7, 55218 Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6132 7164980
Country Name: Germany
Location: Landkreis Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located S of road 60, anout 15 km W of Mainz
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz
Historical Region: Palatinate
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 6th - 7th century, Early Christian? / Merovingian?
Church Notes: original church said to have been Merovingian, 6th-7thC; first documented 822; church re-built ca. 1000 and former baptistery destroyed; place of former baptistery replaced by church tower 1155-1160; present nave of 1739 remains but the rest of the church was demolished that year; new church consecrated 1767; renovated 1990 and 2003
Font Notes:
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An article 'Neuer wichtiger Fund - Frühmittelalterliches Taufbecken an der St. Remigiuskirche in Ingelheim entdeckt', published in the Mainzer Bistumsnachrichten Nr. 24, 3. Juli 2013, announced te discovery of an Early Christian baptismal font in this church. Details of the discovery and the sunken piscina also released in July 2013 in Archaeologie-Online [www.archaeologie-online.de/nachrichten/ein-fruehmittelalterliches-taufbecken-in-ingelheim-entdeckt-2306/] [accessed 20 October 2021]. The present baptismal font in use was made of sandstone in 1721; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with large ribs, on a moulded square pedestal base; dome metal cover with cross finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.976256, 8.065214
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 58′ 34.52″ N, 8° 3′ 54.77″ E
UTM: 32U 432974 5536409
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 130 cm*
Basin Depth: 40 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Kaiserpfalz Ingelheim [www.kaiserpfalz-ingelheim.de/forschungsstelle_pressemitteilungen_01_st_remigius_taufbecken_2013.php] [accessed 20 October 2021]