Meisburg / Meisbrath / Meisbreth / Mesbuasch / Meysenburg
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coat of arms - M+L
Scene Description: Source caption: DerTaufstein stammt aus dem Jahre 1614, ist aus Sandstein gefertigt und 1,14 m hoch. Er trägt die Initialen des Pastors und Stifters, Matthias Lussingen "M + L"." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedbert Wißkirchen, Daun, 2011.
Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by Friedbert Wißkirchen [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=23118] [accessed 2 July 2022]
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inscription
Scene Description: Source caption: DerTaufstein stammt aus dem Jahre 1614, ist aus Sandstein gefertigt und 1,14 m hoch. Er trägt die Initialen des Pastors und Stifters, Matthias Lussingen "M + L"." [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedbert Wißkirchen, Daun, 2011.
Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by Friedbert Wißkirchen [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=23118] [accessed 2 July 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "DerTaufstein stammt aus dem Jahre 1614, ist aus Sandstein gefertigt und 1,14 m hoch. Er trägt die Initialen des Pastors und Stifters, Matthias Lussingen "M + L" [...] Der quadratische Fuß mit breiter Abschrägung, als Schaft dient ein Säulchen,gemustert durch vorgelegte Kreisscheiben. Die Kufe acheckig, mit hohem Messingdeckel i. 19 Jhdt. ausgestattet."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Friedbert Wißkirchen, Daun, 2011.
Image Source: digital photograph 2011 by Friedbert Wißkirchen [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=23118] [accessed 2 July 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 24084MEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Bartholomäus
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Kirchstraße 4, 54570 Meisburg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vulkaneifel, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off local road 257, NNE of Trier
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, SE corner of the nave
Date: 1614
Century and Period: 17th century(early), Renaissance
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: church here probably by 1229; documented 1330; present church 1768; modified 1853
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font reported in the Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=23118] [accessed 2 July 2022]. Described in http://www.kirche-daun.de/8_pfarr/meisburg.htm [accessed 2 July 2022] as a baptismal font of 1614 inscribed with the initials "M + L", probably the then pastor Matthias Lösnich or Lussingen. Metal [brass?] font cover probably 19th-century.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.110304, 6.688022
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin
Inscription Text: "ANNO 1614 / M+L"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: moulded dome with orb-and-cross finial