Arsbeck
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon?
Scene Description: seen here on the left, facing left
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2018 by FredDalheimer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Arsbeck.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: seen here on the righ, faving right
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2018 by FredDalheimer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Arsbeck.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: seen on this side of the font, passant to the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2013 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen im Kreis Heinsberg/Bilder Wegberg/Arsbeck Kirche St. Adelgundis.htm] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2018 by FredDalheimer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Arsbeck.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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human figure - heaed - 4
Scene Description: three of them visible here
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Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2018 by FredDalheimer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Arsbeck.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2013 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, www.limburg-bernd.de [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nr._001_Pfarrkirche,_Endstraße_1_(Arsbeck).jjpg] [accessed
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: " Mittelalterlicher Taufstein mit Reliefs und 4 Köpfen , St.Adelgundis Arsbeck"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © FredDalheimer, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 22 April 2018 by FredDalheimer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufstein_Arsbeck.jpg] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Käthe u. Bernd Limburg, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 4 September 2013 by Käthe u. Bernd Limburg [www.limburg-bernd.de/Kirchen und Kapellen im Kreis Heinsberg/Bilder Wegberg/Arsbeck Kirche St. Adelgundis.htm] [accessed 23 February 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23781ARS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Adelgundis
Church Patron Saints: St. Aldegund [aka Aldegonde, Adelgunde. Adelgundis, Aldegonde, Aldegundis]
Church Location: Endstraße 1, 41844 Wegberg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located inside (W) the road 221 loop, in the municipality and 6 km W of Werberg, about 20-25 km WSW of Mönchengladbach
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: chapel in place before the 15thC church recorded here; re-bult 1723 and 1771; bell tower added 1772; church demolished minus tower; Dalheim monastery church used as parochial; new church body added to standing tower in 1800 becomes present parish church; expanded 1890s; in 2013 church at Arsbeck no longer independent parish and became subsidiary to Wegberg St Martin's
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisiting of a round tapering basin decorated with four human heads set at 90-degree angles on the basin sides; the spaces between the heads are decorated with animals (lions and at least one winged [a dragon?]); torus-scotia below the upper rim; raised on a broad plain pedestal and a round-to-square wirh mouldings of the type to receive a set of four outer colonnettes, whether they existed originally or it is simply the style that was being abandoned in favour of the monopode font design. The metal cover is modern.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.14198, 6.21067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 8′ 31.13″ N, 6° 12′ 38.41″ E
UTM: 32U 304888 5669313
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: 3
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. ImagesArea]