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Apostle or saint - St. Martin - on horseback - sharing his cape

Image Source: digital image in Peter Wasem's Der Rüssinger Taufstein [www.heimat-pfalz.de] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - emblem - the instruments of the Passion - 4

Scene Description: one of them is badly damaged

Image Source: digital image in Peter Wasem's Der Rüssinger Taufstein [www.heimat-pfalz.de] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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design element - motifs - branch or tree

Image Source: digital image in Peter Wasem's Der Rüssinger Taufstein [www.heimat-pfalz.de] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Protestantische Kirche von Rüssingen stammt aus dem 11. Jahrhundert."

Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2015 by Immanuel Giel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Protestantische_Kirche_von_Rüssingen_stammt_aus_dem_11._Jahrhundert._-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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view of church interior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Protestantische Kirche Rüssingen, Rheinland-Pfalz"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 September 2015 by Immanuel Giel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protestantische_Kirche_Ruessingen_09.JPG] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image in Peter Wasem's Der Rüssinger Taufstein [www.heimat-pfalz.de] [accessed 30 June 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24074RUS

Museum and Inventory Number: Germanischen Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg

Church/Chapel: Protestantische Kirche, Rüssingen

Church Patron Saints: [originally dedicated to St. Martin]

Church Location: [address & coordinates are for the church] Hauptstrasse, 67308 Rüssingen, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz

Directions to Site: Located off local road K69 [aka Hauptstrasse], 20 km W of Worms, 35-40 km NW of Mannheim

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1500?

Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Astwerktypus aus der Wormser Schule? / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: the font at nearby Ottersheim?

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: 11thC church; modified 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Peter Wasem's Der Rüssinger Taufstein [www.heimat-pfalz.de] [accessed 30 June 2022]: The sandstone font was withdrawn from the church in the 1770s, and was re-cycled as water fountain in the yard, for which purpose holes were made on the side for drainage; later acquired by Munich antiquarian Georg Mössel, who later still sld it to the Germanischen Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg. The octagonal basin has the scene of St Martin sharing his cape on one side; the basin is supported on four kneeling angels holding shields, three of which contain emblems of the Instruments of the Passion, the fourth being destroyed; the three-tiered base is decorated with foliage. Noted and illustrated in Frank Matthias Kammel's Das Taufbecken als Lebensbrunnen: Zu Provenienz und Symbolik eines Taufsteins aus der Pfalz [https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/ma/article/download/29067/22742/0] [accessed 30 June 2022], where another font of similar characteristics is also studied [NB: the latter font may have a scene with a bishop at an altar instead of the St Martin scene]. Noted and illustrated in Stefanie Meier-Kreiskott [https://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/13552/1/Meier-Kreiskott_Stefanie.pdf] [accessed 30 June 2022] as one of two cognate fonts of the so-called 'Astwerktypus aus der Wormser Schule': "8-eck, „Löwentaufstein“, Engelsfiguren am Schaft, Figurenrelief am Becken. Der profilierte Sockel wie der wenig eingezogene Schaft werden von vier knienden Engelsfiguren, die Schilde mit den Leidenswerkzeugen Christi halten, umgeben. Auf deren Köpfen ruht das Becken mit der senkrechten Wandung. Dort befindet sich ein erzählendes Relief mit St. Martin und dem Bettler. Die übrigen Felder sind von Ast-werk überzogen, das von der Schaftbasis ausgeht".

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.6169, 8.0906

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 37′ 0.84″ N, 8° 5′ 26.16″ E

UTM: 32U 434310 5496434

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 99 cm* / **

Font Height (less Plinth): 91 cm* / 92.5 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Peter Wasem / **Stefanie Meier-Kreiscott