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view of font and cover - west side
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human figure - head - 4
Scene Description: three of them visible here
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Velopilger, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 3 August 2019 by Velopilger [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20190803_Hike_Waldniel-Schwalm-Born._Reader-49.jpg] [accessed 22 November 2021]
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view of font and cover in context
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design element - architectural - columns - 5
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design element - motifs - moulding - 4
Scene Description: forming the bases of the outer colonnettes; almost totally eroded now
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 23557BOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Traukirche St. Peter
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, centre aisle, W end
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Notes: the original church here may have belonged to the disappeared manor house; present church 15thC
Church Address: Born 51, 41379 Brüggen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 (0)2163 6715
Site Location: Düsseldorf, Nordhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road L373, E of highway 221, in the municipality and 1-2 km E of Brüggen, 25-30 km W of Düsseldorf
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen
Font Notes:
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Noted in Sauerman (1904) as similar to the fonts at Höjer, Boisheim and Hönnepel. The font consists of a roughly cylindrical basin decorated with four human heads set at 90-degree angles on the upper sides, raised on a broad shaft and four outer colonnettes, on a square lower base. Font cover of brass with orb-and-cross finial; appears modern.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 305378 5680487
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.2425, 6.211611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 14′ 33″ N, 6° 12′ 41.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-dome with orb-and-cross finial
REFERENCES
- Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904, p.26