Trochtelborn / Tröchtelborn

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New Testament - Apocalypse - Last Judgment - the seven angels
Scene Description: Revelation 8:6-12: "The first angel sounded, and [...]" -- partially visible here on the right
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 July 2021 by Subbass1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tröchtelborn,_St._Bonifatius_(03).jpg] [accessed 9 September 2022]
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - dove
Scene Description: ssen here on the right; the dove is haloed
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 July 2021 by Subbass1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tröchtelborn,_St._Bonifatius_(06).jpg] [accessed 9 September 2022]
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Old Testament - reconnaissance of Canaan (Numbers 13-14)
Scene Description: KJV: "And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff"
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 July 2021 by Subbass1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tröchtelborn,_St._Bonifatius_(03).jpg] [accessed 9 September 2022]
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Old Testament - story of Abraham - the sacrifice of Isaac (Genesis 22)
Scene Description: Genesis 22
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 July 2021 by Subbass1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tröchtelborn,_St._Bonifatius_(06).jpg] [accessed 9 September 2022]
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angel
Scene Description: seen here on the left
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
design element - patterns - crenellated
head - 6
Scene Description: three seen here: a lion's on the left; centre and right are human heads wearing headgear of some sort [NB: one side is blank now but originaly had a head on it as well]
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 12 July 2021 by Subbass1 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tröchtelborn,_St._Bonifatius_(03).jpg] [accessed 9 September 2022]
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human figure - putti - 2
Scene Description: the one on tghe left carries a bird; the one in the right carries a flower
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inscription
Scene Description: Matthew 19:14
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische St.-Bonifatius-Kirche Tröchtelborn, Landkreis Gotha, Thüringen, Deutschland" [NB: notice the missing head from one of the base sides]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption" Evangelische St.-Bonifatius-Kirche Tröchtelborn, Landkreis Gotha, Thüringen, Deutschland"
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische St.-Bonifatius-Kirche Tröchtelborn, Landkreis Gotha, Thüringen, Deutschland"
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische St.-Bonifatius-Kirche Tröchtelborn, Landkreis Gotha, Thüringen, Deutschland"
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24292TRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Dorfkirche St. Bonifatius
Church Patron Saints: St. Boniface [aka Bonifatius, Winfrith]
Church Location: Kirchberg, 99869 Tröchtelborn, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Gotha, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located off (N) local road L1043 [aka Lindenstrasse] , 10 km ENE of Gotha, about 20 km W of Erfurt
Font Location in Church: Inside he church
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and his help in documenting it
Church Notes: present church 1603-1605 re-building of 11thC church; damaged April 1945; renovated 1992-1996
Font Notes:
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Early-17th century baptismal font, consisting of a hexagonal basin decorated with a rounded rim with crenellations and a running inscription below; the the sides of the basin include the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, the sacrifice of Isaac, the angel of the Last Judgment, the spies from Canaan carrying a huge bunch of grapes, naked putti and angels; the short base, also hexagonal, is decorated with human heads. Modern font cover.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.991757, 10.818531
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 59′ 30.32″ N, 10° 49′ 6.71″ E
UTM: 32U 627624 5650482
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: below the rim decoration
Inscription Text: "[...] MARCIAM-X-SPRICHT-CHRIST[U]S / LASSET-DIE-KINDLEIN / KOMMEN-VND / WERET-INEN-NICHT / DEN-SOLCHER-IST- /[,,,]"
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal, flat and plain; modern