Steffeln
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael (Steffeln), Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 28 February 2020 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michael_(Steffeln)_04.jpg] [access 6 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "54597 Steffeln, Kirchweg 4. Saalbau wohl von 1711, Westturm bezeichnet 1923, von den Architekten Peter Marx und Peter Gracher (Trier)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colling-architektur, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 25 May 2017 by Colling-architektur [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steffeln_(Eifel);_kath._Pfarrkirche_St._Michael_h.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2022]
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view of church exterior - soujteast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael (Steffeln), Südostseite"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 28 February 2020 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michael_(Steffeln)_01.jpg] [access 6 July 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: " 54597 Steffeln, Kirchweg 4. Saalbau wohl von 1711, Westturm bezeichnet 1923, von den Architekten Peter Marx und Peter Gracher (Trier)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colling-architektur, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 25 May 2017 by Colling-architektur [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steffeln_(Eifel);_kath._Pfarrkirche_St._Michael_p.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2022]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colling-architektur, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 25 May 2017 by Colling-architektur [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steffeln_(Eifel);_kath._Pfarrkirche_St._Michael_p.jpg] [accessed 6 July 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael (Steffeln), Taufbecken und Michaelsstatue"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 28 February 2020 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michael_(Steffeln)_04.jpg] [access 6 July 2022]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 28 February 2020 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Michael_(Steffeln)_04.jpg] [access 6 July 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24091STE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Michael Steffeln
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NE corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael
Church Address: Kirchweg 2, 54597 Steffeln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6593 8972
Site Location: Vulkaneifel, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road L24 [aka Hochstrasse-Brunnenstrasse], 20 km NE of Prüm, 55-60 km N of Trier
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in the Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=1527] [accessed 6 July 2022] as a baptismal font made of "lavatuff" in the 17th century. The font is round, not quite cylindrical as it narrows somewhat in the centre; painted. Metal cover with tiny cross finial; appears modern.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 326830 5573468
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.287896, 6.569011
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 17′ 16.43″ N, 6° 34′ 8.44″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, lava [cf. FontNotes]
Font Shape: round
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]