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Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Taufstein neben der Kirche in Binscheid, Gemeinde Üttfeld (Eifel, Deutschland). Der Sage nach hat der heilige Willibrord einen Taufstein aus einem heidnischen Menhir meißeln lassen und darin die ersten Christen getauft."
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Taufstein neben der Kirche in Binscheid, Gemeinde Üttfeld (Eifel, Deutschland). Der Sage nach hat der heilige Willibrord einen Taufstein aus einem heidnischen Menhir meißeln lassen und darin die ersten Christen getauft."
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Image Source: digital image of a 1 June 1999 photograph by Helge Klaus Rieder [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_als_christianisierter_Menhir_in_Binscheid_H2.jpg] [accessed 2 July 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24082BIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche von Binscheid
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Location: Mannertalstraße 4, 54619 Üttfeld, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off local road K122, in the municipality and about 2 km SSW of Üttfeld, 3 km NNW of Arzfeld, near the border with Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Font Location in Church: Outside the church
Cognate Fonts: another such at nearby Eschfeld, etc.
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: chapel of ease to Eschfeld until 1808 when it became parish in its own right; present church of 1878
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=10022] [accessed 2 July 2022] as a former pagan menhir said to have been later re-carved by St. Wilibrord and used as baptismal font; the location is given as the outside of Sankt Nikolaus Kirche, in Binscheid [NB: this story is questioned by some sources]. This font is noted and illustrated also in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taufstein_von_Binscheid] [accessed 26 January 2024] as a cultural monument ["Der Taufstein in Binscheid, einem Ortsteil von Üttfeld im Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm in Rheinland-Pfalz ist ein Kulturdenkmal"]; legend has it that it was a former pagan menhir converted into a baptismal font by St. Willibrord; the same source informs, however, that the stone object was a Romanesque baptismal font from the 12th or 13th century made of arkose originally in what is now Belgian territory.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.114272, 6.248626
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 6′ 51.38″ N, 6° 14′ 55.06″ E
UTM: 32U 303298 5554961