Richrath
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view of church exterior - west tower
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Martinus zu Langenfeld-Richrath"
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Image Source: digital photograph 13 June 2009 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richrath_St._Martinus.JPG] [accessed 1 February 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick von der Orgel in die St.-Martinus-Kirche in Langenfeld-Richrath"
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Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2010 by Daniel Wowra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langenfeld-Innen-Kirche-Richrath.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2022]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 10 April 2010 by Daniel Wowra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langenfeld-Taufbereich-Kirche-Richrath.jpg] [accessed 1 February 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick in den Taufbereich hinter dem Altar der St.-Martinus-Kirche in Langenfeld-Richrath"
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view of font in context - upper view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrer Gerhard Trimborn tauft an St. Martin in Richrath"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ralph Matzerath, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 4 April 2015 by Ralph Matzerath, in RP.Online [https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/langenfeld/richraths-taufbecken-ist-800-jahre-alt_aid-21661227] [accessed 1 February 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23715RIC
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Kirche Sankt Martinus
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Kaiserstraße 28, Richrath, 40764 Langenfeld (Rheinland), Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Düsseldorf, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the K9 [aka Hildener Strasse], N of the L353 [aka Berghausener Strasse], about 1 km N of Langenfeld, E of Baumberg and the Rhine river,
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Münster
Historical Region: Bergischen Land
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: a church may have existed here since the 8thC; present tower said to date to the late-10th or early-11thC; much modified since; re-built 1895;
Described and illustrated in Ann-Kristin Schöne's Langenfeld Das Osterfest wird auch in diesem Jahr von vielen Eltern als Tauftermin genutzt. Taufe ist das Symbol des christlichen Lebens, in RP.Online [https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/langenfeld/richraths-taufbecken-ist-800-jahre-alt_aid-21661227] [accessed 1 February 2022], a summary of which follows: The stone baptismal font has been in the possession of the community for around 800 years, which has existed since the Christianization of the Rhineland. The Richrath parish is one of the oldest parishes in the whole of the Bergisches Land. As early as the 8th century there is said to have been a church at Richrath, in which the well-known apostle of the Bergisches Land, St. Swidbert, preached the gospel. The massive, still very well preserved Romanesque tower, which points up like a huge divine finger in the wide plain between the Rhine, Wupper and Düssel, dates from the end of the tenth and the beginning of the eleventh century. The entry for Langenfeld in GPS-Wanderatlas [https://www.ich-geh-wandern.de/langenfeld-richrath] [accessed 1 February 2022] describes the material of the font as "Drachenfels-Trachyt"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
51.129722,
6.944444
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
51° 7′ 47″ N,
6° 56′ 40″ E
UTM: 32U 356172 5666260
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, trachyte?
Number of Pieces: 1
Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: metal insert