Ottersheim

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Apostle or saint - St. Thomas Beckett celebrating a mass - Murder of St. Thomas Beckett

Scene Description: as per identification in Stefanie Meier-Kreiskott [cf. FontNotes]

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Apostle or saint - St. Thomas Beckett celebrating a mass - Murder of St. Thomas Beckett? - detail

Scene Description: tentative identification [cf. FontNotes]

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

Scene Description: at the corners of the base

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design element - motifs - branch or tree

Scene Description: all around

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design element - motifs - branch or tree

Scene Description: in the spaces between the corner angels

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design element - motifs - flat moulding

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design element - motifs - loop - 3

Scene Description: three very lage scallop-like loops beneath the cleric scene

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Scene Description: in the spaces between the angels

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Amandus. 1890 bis 1893 errichtete neogotische Pfarrkirche. Architekt: Franz Schöberl."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Camrade obscura, 2016

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Amandus in Ottersheim (Donnersbergkreis): Blick in den Chor"

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Kirche St. Amandus in Ottersheim (Donnersbergkreis): Blick auf die Orgelempore" -- partial view of the font and its cover at the back, between the two doors

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Spätgotischer Taufstein (um 1500) des Astwerktypus aus der Wormser Schule in der katholischen Pfarrkirche St. Amandus in Ottersheim. Das Relief zeigt die Ermordung des hl. Thomas Becket bzw. des hl. Lambertus."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24075OTT
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Amandus
Church Patron Saints: St. Amand [aka Amandus]
Church Location: Hauptstrasse, 67308 Ottersheim, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Donnersbergkreis, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off local road L447, 1-2 km NE of Rüssingen, 22 km W of Worms, 35-40 km NW of Mannheim
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Date: ca. 1500-1510?
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 Rüssingen
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] together with the cognate font at nearby Rüssingen. 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. 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'; the font has a scene on the basin side with two figures: a cleric wearing a bishop's mitre and officiating at the altar; behind him, to the left, is a standing figure that may be stabbing the bishop in the back with a sword, although the damage to the carving makes it unclear; the rest of the basin side is decorated with a spread of branches or trees; four demi-angels stand at the corners of the base holding shiellds with the emblem of the Instruments of the Passion and, like the basin, with thick branches or trees all around in the gaps; the upper rim is a broad flat moulding. The dome metal cover appears modern and bears Christological symbols; orb-and-cross finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.62441, 8.1104
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 37′ 27.88″ N, 8° 6′ 37.44″ E
UTM: 32U 435750 5497252

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (reddish)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 96 cm* / **
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm* / **
Notes on Measurements: * F.M. Kammel / ** Stefanir Meier-Kristott [cf. FontNotes]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]