Ottersheim bei Landau / Hoteresheim / Hudamareshaim / Othersheim / Udomarsheimer / Udomersheim

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inscription

Scene Description: "1629"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Wild, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2017 by Rudolf Wild [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ottersheim_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2022]

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin, Ansicht von Südwesten"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Wild, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2017 by Rudolf Wild [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ottersheim_Kirche_3.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2022]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ottersheim, Germersheimer Straße 3; Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin; fünfachsiger Saalbau, 1618, 1789 erweitert, gotischer ehemaliger Chorturm; Sandsteinkruzifix über Adam und Eva, bezeichnet 1747."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerd Eichmann, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph 12 June 2005 by Gerd Eichmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ottersheim-Kirche-01-gje.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2022]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken der Katholischen Pfarrkirche St. Martin in Ottersheim; bezeichnet 1629"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Wild, 2017

Image Source: digital photograph 9 May 2017 by Rudolf Wild [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ottersheim_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24079OTT
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: L509 14, 76879 Ottersheim bei Landau, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Germersheim, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off local road L509 [aka Gemersheimer Strasse], between Germersheim (E) and Landau (W), W of the Rhein river
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1629
Century and Period: 17th century(early),
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: earlier church replaced by new building in 1618-1619; briefly Reformed but Catholic since 1697
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with rounded underbowl, raised on an octagonal-to-square base and a square plinh; the font is painted and bears the date 1629 on one of the sides of the basin. The font is painted. Low-dome metal cover with ball finial/handle.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.191277, 8.230044
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 11′ 28.6″ N, 8° 13′ 48.16″ E
UTM: 32U 443900 5449005

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: [cf. ImagesArea]
Inscription Text: "1629"
Inscription Source: basin side

LID INFORMATION

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