Karden / Vicus Cardena

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 6

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 May 2013 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden_-_Sint_Kastorkerk_-_Doopvont.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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design element - architectural - column - capitals and bases - 7

six outer colonnettes and a short shaft beneath the bottom of the basin; each capital of the outer colonnettes is foliated; only some of the bases, shaped like inverted capitals, are equally decorated
Scene Description: six outer colonnettes and a short shaft beneath the bottom of the basin; each capital of the outer colonnettes is foliated; only some of the bases, shaped like inverted capitals, are equally decorated
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 May 2013 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden_-_Sint_Kastorkerk_-_Doopvont.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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design element - motifs - scotia

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 7 May 2013 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden_-_Sint_Kastorkerk_-_Doopvont.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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view of church exterior - southeast end

Source caption: "St. Castor Kirche Treis-Karden"
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Castor Kirche Treis-Karden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Christiane taeubchen, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 16 July 2009 by Christiane taeubchen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Castor_Kirche_Treis-Karden.JPG] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Castor in Karden, Blick von oberhalb der Weinberge aus Richtung Südwest"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ehemalige Stiftskirche St. Castor in Karden, Blick von oberhalb der Weinberge aus Richtung Südwest"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Spurzem, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 12 September 2021 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden,_St._Castor_SW_(2021-09-12_Sp).jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Stiftskirche in Karden, Innenraum"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stiftskirche in Karden, Innenraum"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Historiograf, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 30 April 2005 by Historiograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden_Stiftskirche_Innen.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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view of church interior - looking west

Source caption: "Treis-Karden, St. Castor"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Treis-Karden, St. Castor"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steffen Schmitz (Carschten), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 6 August 2012 by Steffen Schmitz (Carschten) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treis-Karden,_St._Castor,_2012-08_CN-04.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0 (DE) / FAL

view of font - drawing

Source caption: " Der Taufstein von St. Kastor in Treis-Karden, September 7, 1858"
Scene Description: Source caption: " Der Taufstein von St. Kastor in Treis-Karden, September 7, 1858"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städel Museum, 2022
Image Source: digital image [edited] of a 7 September 1858 pencil drawing by Karl Theodor Reiffenstein, in the Städelsche Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, 1893 [https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/der-taufstein-von-st-kastor-in-treis-karden] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Treis-Karden (Kreis Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz). Stiftskirche St. Castor, Taufstein."
Scene Description: Source caption: "Treis-Karden (Kreis Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz). Stiftskirche St. Castor, Taufstein."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph 28 July 2017 by Torsade de Pointes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden_Stiftskirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
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view of font and cover

Source caption: "Taufstein in der ehemaligen Stiftskirche St. Castor in Karden"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein in der ehemaligen Stiftskirche St. Castor in Karden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lothar Spurzem, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 1 July 2018 by Lothar Spurzem [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden,_St._Castor_-_Taufbecken_(2018-07-01_Sp).JPG] [accessed 6 June 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE

view of font and cover in context

Source caption: "Treis-Karden, St. Castor, Innenansicht"
Scene Description: Source caption: "Treis-Karden, St. Castor, Innenansicht"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Steffen Schmitz (Carschten), 2012
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 6 August 2012 by Steffen Schmitz (Carschten) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treis-Karden,_St._Castor,_2012-08_CN-02.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0 (DE) / FAL

view of font and cover in context

Source caption: "Karden - Sint Kastorkerk - Doopvont" -- all stone surfaces are painted
Scene Description: Source caption: "Karden - Sint Kastorkerk - Doopvont" -- all stone surfaces are painted
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RomkeHoekstra, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 7 May 2013 by RomkeHoekstra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karden_-_Sint_Kastorkerk_-_Doopvont.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 24009KAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Castor, Karden [aka Moseldom / Kardener Castorkirche]
Church Patron Saints: St. Castor [+ ca. 400
Church Location: Lindenpl. 2, 56253 Treis-Karden, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Cochem-Zell, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off road 116, on the NW banks of the Moselle, in the municipality of Treis-Karden, about 20 km SW of Koblenz
Date: ca. 1247?
Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late 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: original cult site very early; west tower ca. 1120; Romanesque church added 1186; modified 1699; collegiate foundation abolished 1802
Font Notes:
Noted in Pauly (1986) as a late-Romanesque baptismal font; basin supported on six columns and a central support; probably dated to 1247, the date of the consecration of the church. Pauly (ibid.) mentions a visitation report from 1779 which reported the presence of the baptismal font in the collegiate church ["fons baptimalis existit in ecclesia collegiata"], and the holy chrism for baptism as well ["und fügt erläuternd hinzu, auch die zur Spendung der Taufe verwendeten hI. Öle (olea salutis et chrismatis) würden dort aufbewahrt"]. The brass font cover is a moulded dome with an orb-and-cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.18369, 7.3012
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 11′ 1.28″ N, 7° 18′ 4.32″ E
UTM: 32U 378720 5560436

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, basalt
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rp
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead basin insert [cf. FontNotes]
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Pauly (1986) -- lead insert (diameter: 77 cm; depth: 33 cm)

LID INFORMATION

Date: 19th century (?)
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: source: (Dehio, Handbuch S. 873; Kunstdenkm. Krs. Cochem 2 S. 461/62)

REFERENCES

Pauly, Ferdinand, Das Stift S[ank]t Kastor in Karden an der Mos, Berlin; New York: De Gruyter, 1986