Heimbach
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inscription - partial
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach), barocker Taufstein, laut Inschrift von vier Ehepaaren im 17. Jh. gestiftet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_38.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
inscription - partial
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach), barocker Taufstein, laut Inschrift von vier Ehepaaren im 17. Jh. gestiftet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_39.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach), Ostseite"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_16.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach) und St. Salvator, Südseite von der Burg aus"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_08.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach), Blick ins barocke Kirchenschiff von der Empore aus "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_21.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach), barocker Taufstein, laut Inschrift von vier Ehepaaren im 17. Jh. gestiftet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_37.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Clemens (Heimbach), barocker Taufstein, laut Inschrift von vier Ehepaaren im 17. Jh. gestiftet"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 September 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Clemens_(Heimbach)_36.jpg] [accessed 7 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 24346HEI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Clemens in Heimbach
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement
Church Location: Teichstraße 300, 52396 Heimbach, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Köln, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 265, 8 km S of Nideggen, on the E bank of the Roer river, in the NE corner of the Nationalpark Eifel, 30 km SE of Aachen
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the gallery
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
Church Notes: medieval church destroyed in 1687 fire; present church consecrated 1725
Font Notes:
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Noted in the Nationalparkstadt Heimbach [https://www.heimbach-eifel.de/tourismus/sehenswuerdigkeiten/pfarrkirche-st-clemens.php] [accessed 7 October 2022] as a Baroque font bearing an inscription about its donation in the 17th century: "Unter der Empore hat der barocke, becherförmige Taufstein Aufstellung gefunden. Er wurde laut der Inschrift von vier Ehepaaren im 17. Jh. gestiftet." The font is very much of a Baroque design, a roughly hemispherical basin on a baluster-shaped pedestal base and a small rounded lower base. Dome-shaped metal [copper?] font cover; plain.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.634224, 6.479568
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 38′ 3.2″ N, 6° 28′ 46.45″ E
UTM: 32U 321767 5612182
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: ped - ro
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Notes: [according to the inscription the font was donated by four married couples in the 17thC]
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: plain dome