Mittelheim

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coat of arms - Zunge Family of Fürstenberg

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes] [NB: said to be the arms of the donor]

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Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2010 by Manfred Heyde [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Aegidius_Mittelheim_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - patterns - tracery

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design element - patterns - tracery - varied

Scene Description: covering most of the basin sides

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "The medieval church St. Aegidius in Mittelheim, Oestrich-Winkel"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © DXR, 2013

Image Source: digital photograph 29 October 2013 by DXR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Aegidius,_Mittelheim,_North-East_View_20131029_10.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Basilika St. Aegidius in Mittelheim im Rheingau, um 1900."

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Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1900 B&W photograph by Albrecht Meydenbauer, in Historische Bilddokumente [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mittelheim_St_Aegidius_81-005.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Oestrich-Winkel-Mittelheim: St. Ägidius, von Südwesten gesehen"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mylius, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph 29 July 2012 by Mylius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oestrich-Winkel-Mittelheim-St_Aegidius_von_Suedwesten-20120729.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: Source caption: "The baptistry of the basilica St. Aegidius in Mittelheim"

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Image Source: digital photograph 15 September 2014 by DXR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Aegidius,_Mittelheim,_Baptistry_20140915_2.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "The nave of the basilica St. Aegidius in Mittelheim"

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view of church interior - transept - looking south

Scene Description: Source caption: "The transept of St. Aegidius, Mittelheim as seen from North"

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view of font - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: "Mittelheim Pfarrkirche Taufstein"

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Image Source: digital image of a 1902 drawing by Ferdinand Luthmer, in Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Rheingaues Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1902 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luthmer_I-224-Mittelheim_Pfarrkirche_Taufstein.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "St Ägidius Basilika in Mittelheim am Rhein - Taufstein, um 1490"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manfred Heyde, 2010

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view of font and cover in context

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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 September 2014 by DXR [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Aegidius,_Mittelheim,_Baptistry_20140915_2.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24089MIT
Church/Chapel: Basilika St. Ägidius [Aegidius] Mittelheim / Katholische Pfarrkirche Mittelheim
Church Patron Saints: St. Giles [aka Aegidus, Egidus, Gilles]
Church Location: An d. Basilika 8, 65375 Oestrich-Winkel, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6123 703770
Country Name: Germany
Location: Darmstadt, Hessen
Directions to Site: Located between the 42 [aka Rheinwed] (S) and the 42A [aka Rhabanusstrasse], on the N bank of the Rheine river, 15-20 km W of Mainz
Historical Region: Rheingau
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery, S transept
Date: ca. 1490? / ca. 1495?
Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font / Lilien-Masswerk-Typus [Böcher]
Church Notes: early-12thC (1118-1131?) church built on foundations of 10thC chapel; became parish church for Mitelheim 1263; much renovated since
Wilhelm Lotz' Die Baudenkmäler im Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden (Berlin: Ernst & Korn, 1880: 323), reports a late-Gothic baptismal bearing a coat of arms in Mittelheim. Noted and illustrated In Böcher (1961-:45), as a font of the Lilien-Masswerk-Typus [Böcher] made ca. 1495; he identifies the coat of armas as that of the Zunge Family of Fürstenberg.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.000556, 8.015278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 0′ 2″ N, 8° 0′ 55″ E
UTM: 32U 429429 5539157

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Diameter (inside rim): 92 cm
Basin Total Height: 56 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 107 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Böcher (1961- )

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal with raised starred centre

REFERENCES

Böcher, Otto, "Die Entwicklung des Löwentaufsteins in der hessischen und rheinfränkischen Gotik", 5 (1961/1962), Der Wormsgau, 1961-1962, pp. 31-84. Abb. 30-62.