Steffeln

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 3

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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)."

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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"

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view of church interior - chancel

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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)."

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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

Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Michael (Steffeln), Taufbecken"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2020

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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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INFORMATION

FontID: 24091STE
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Michael Steffeln
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael
Church Location: Kirchweg 2, 54597 Steffeln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6593 8972
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vulkaneifel, Rheinland-Pfalz
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 Location in Church: Inside the church, NE corner of the nave
Century and Period: 17th century, Baroque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.287896, 6.569011
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 17′ 16.43″ N, 6° 34′ 8.44″ E
UTM: 32U 326830 5573468

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]