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design element - architectural - arch-head - pointed - 16

Scene Description: two arch-heads on each side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph of October 2020 by Christine Fauerbach in the Geißener Allgemeine 23/20/2020 [https://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/wetterau/karben-ort82108/landfrauen-hoffen-70-jahr-feier-13923743.html] [accessed 9 June 2022]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ev. Pfarrkirche St. Martin, Petterweil"

Image Source: digital photograph 2 December 2006 by Triebtäter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinskirche_petterweil.jpg] [accessed 9 June 2022]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: " Innenraum der Martinskirche in Petterweil"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2011 by Peng [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinskirche_petterweil_007.jpg] [accessed 9 June 2022]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Martinskirche im Karbener Stadtteil Petterweil, Kanzel:"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2011 by Peng [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Martinskirche_petterweil_008.jpg] [accessed 9 June 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rund ums Taufbecken im Pfarrgarten haben sich Aktive aus den Reihen der Petterweiler Landfrauen mit Vorstandssprecherin Ortrun Wolf (vorne rechts) zum Gruppenfoto mit Abstand aufgestellt."

Image Source: digital photograph of October 2020 by Christine Fauerbach in the Geißener Allgemeine 23/20/2020 [https://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/wetterau/karben-ort82108/landfrauen-hoffen-70-jahr-feier-13923743.html] [accessed 9 June 2022]

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view of font cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrer Michael Neugber (links) und Kirchenvorsteher Conny von Schumann vor dem romanischen Taufstein im Petterweiler Pfarrgarten. Sie erhoffen sich vom Zusammenschluss den Wegfall von Verwaltungsaufgaben und die Stärkung der Ökumene" [NB: unfortunately the photographer failed to include the actual font]

Image Source: digital photograph 24 February 2022 by Jürgen Schenk in the Frankfurter Neue Press [https://www.fnp.de/lokales/wetteraukreis/karben/der-gemeinsame-weg-zaehlt-91368937.html] [accessed 9 June 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24015PET

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche Petterweil

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Alte Heerstraße 3A, 61184 Karben, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6039 939429

Country Name: Germany

Location: Darmstadt, Hessen

Directions to Site: Located off local road L3352 [aka Rodheimer Straße], E of county road 5, about 20 km N of Frankfurt am Main

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz

Font Location in Church: In the parish garden? [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]

Century and Period: 13th century (late?), Early Gothic

Cognate Fonts: the font at the Evangelische Kirche in Münzenberg is almost identical

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: 9thC baptismal chapel; enlarged 1200; renovated 1785

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Wilhelm Lotz' Kunst-topographie Deutschlands: Ein haus- und reisehandbuch für kunstler, Gelehrte, und Freunde unserer alten Kunst (Cassell, 1962: 522) as having a similar font to the one in Münzenberg [i.e., in the Evangelische Kirche]. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 24 May 2022) translates from the parish entry [https://evkirche-petterweil.de/kirche/] [accessed 24 May 2022]: "The former baptismal font from the 12th century in the church garden was removed from the church during the renovation in 1785 and then went strange ways. It came to Vilbel and was misused there at the district court as a horse drinking trough and flower trough. In 1895 this baptismal font was brought back to Petterweil. It was placed in the garden of the church. When the church garden was renovated, it was given a rondel to the left and right, and the archway and baptismal font were brought to the fore." Pol Herman, however, adds: "This baptismal font is often mentioned in 19th century books, and described as almost identical to the font of Münzenberg. I cannot believe it is 12th century." [NB: indeed; both fonts are quite likely 13th-century]. A photograph of October 2020 in the Geißener Allgemeine 23/20/2020 [https://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/wetterau/karben-ort82108/landfrauen-hoffen-70-jahr-feier-13923743.html] [accessed 9 June 2022] shows the font still in the church garden; the cover on it is probably meant to protect the font itself from the elements.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.243611, 8.714389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 14′ 37″ N, 8° 42′ 51.8″ E

UTM: 32U 479635 5565756

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, basalt?

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]