Bachem / Bachem in Frechen

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "alte katholische Kirche Sankt Mauritius Frechen-Bachem"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 1 January 2013 by Tohma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Mauritius_Frechen_Bachem.jpg] [accessed 8 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "alte katholische Kirche Sankt Mauritius Frechen-Bachem"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 29 May 2011 by Tohma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Mauritius_Frechen_Bachem2.jpg] [accessed 8 October 2022]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "alte katholische Kirche Sankt Mauritius Frechen-Bachem"

Image Source: digital photograph 5 February 2011 by Tohma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Mauritius_Frechen_Bachem_Innenraum.jpg] [accessed 8 October 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken Sankt Mauritius Frechen-Bachem"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 27 July 2014 by Tohma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Sankt_Mauritius.jpg] [accessed 8 October 2022]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "ein gewaltiger, romanischer Taufstein aus dem 12./13. Jahrhundert mit einem neuzeitlichen Deckel."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Eifel Kirchen [https://www.eifelkirchen.com/Bachem/Bachem.htm] [accessed 8 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24348BAC

Church/Chapel: Alte katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Mauritius in Frechen-Bachem

Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]

Church Location: Lahnstraße 56, Bachem, 50226 Frechen, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Köln, Nordhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the B264 [aka Holzstraße], about 15 km WSW of Cologne city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Köln

Font Location in Church: Inside the present church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

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 in the lower village was demolished in the 17thC; present St Mauritius church was built 1721 as Burgkapelle of the Freiherrn von Geldern; tower added 1935; restored 1960s;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Medieval font discovered buried under the flooring of the church, together with the foundations of the Baroque church tower here. Noted and illustrated in Eifel Kirchen [https://www.eifelkirchen.com/Bachem/Bachem.htm] [accessed 8 October 2022]: "ein gewaltiger, romanischer Taufstein aus dem 12./13. Jahrhundert mit einem neuzeitlichen Deckel." The font is a quasi-cylindrical basin raised on three stumps; it has a row of roumd arch heads around the upper side, a processional Greek cross in one of them. Dome-shaped metal cover, modern as indicated above.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8943, 6.81362

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 53′ 39.48″ N, 6° 48′ 49.03″ E

UTM: 32U 346242 5640348

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]