Metterich nr. Bitburg

Image copyright © Helge Rieder, Konz, 2000

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "54634 Metterich, Kirchstraße 1a. Saalbau, 1727, Westturm 1754, spätgotischer Chor; mit Ausstattung; südlich auf Brunnenstock, bezeichnet 1848, barocker Sockelstein mit Nepomuk-Skulptur, 18. Jahrhundert; Friedhofskreuz, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colling-architektur, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 12 April 2018 by Colling-architektur [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metterich_(Eifel);_katholische_Pfarrkirche_St._Eucharius_c.jpg] [accessed 7 July 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "einen achteckigen Taufstein des 10. Jahrhunderts"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Helge Rieder, Konz, 2000

Image Source: digital photograph by Helge Rieder, Konz, in the Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=2136] [accessed 7 July 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24094MET
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Eucharius
Church Patron Saints: St. Eucharius, Bishop of Trier
Church Location: Kirchstraße 1, 54634 Metterich, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off (E) county road 50, 5 km ENE of Bitburg, about 30 km N of Trier
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Trier
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: , Medieval
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: late-medieval church documented in a 1569 visitation;
The entry for this church in the Datenbank der Kulturgüter in der Region Trier [https://kulturdb.de/einobjekt.php?id=2136] [accessed 7 July 2022] notes and illustrates an octagonal baptismal font of the 10th century [="einen achteckigen Taufstein des 10. Jahrhunderts"]. The object consists of a square basin raised on a round pedestal base and a round-to-octagonal lower base; all of it is painted in bright colours. Metal [brass?] font cover with orb-and-cross; modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.979053, 6.588039
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 58′ 44.59″ N, 6° 35′ 16.94″ E
UTM: 32U 327076 5539090

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]