Biedenkopf No. 1
Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
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Results: 20 records
design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: all around the medieval basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a 28 May 2019 digital photograph in the Mittelhessen.de [https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/marburg-biedenkopf/biedenkopf/800-jahre-alten-taufstein-retten_20176260] [accessed 9 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
design element - motifs - knob
Scene Description: below the rim moulding of the medieval basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 May 2019 in the Mittlehessen.de [https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/marburg-biedenkopf/biedenkopf/1000-kilo-schwerer-taufstein-steht-wieder-in-der-kirche_20179407] [accessed 9 October 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: all around the medieval basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 May 2019 in the Mittlehessen.de [https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/marburg-biedenkopf/biedenkopf/1000-kilo-schwerer-taufstein-steht-wieder-in-der-kirche_20179407] [accessed 9 October 2022]
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view of base
Scene Description: the plain new base to replace the missing one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: a detail of the medieval basin in May 2019, a couple of days before it was brought back into the church?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a 28 May 2019 digital photograph in the Mittelhessen.de [https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/marburg-biedenkopf/biedenkopf/800-jahre-alten-taufstein-retten_20176260] [accessed 9 October 2022]
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view of basin in context
Scene Description: the medieval basin now inside the church (just!)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 30 May 2019 in the Mittlehessen.de [https://www.mittelhessen.de/lokales/marburg-biedenkopf/biedenkopf/1000-kilo-schwerer-taufstein-steht-wieder-in-der-kirche_20179407] [accessed 9 October 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Biedenkopf, Deutschland: Abbruch der evangelischen Johanneskirche aus dem 13. Jhd. Teile der Kirche blieben erhalten und wurden in den Nachfolgebau (Stadtkirche Biedenkopf) integriert, der an gleicher Stelle in den Jahren 1888 bis 1891 entstand. Beginn der Abbrucharbeiten war am 29. Mai 1888. Die Datierung der Quelle („vor 1885“) ist falsch."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1888 [wrongly dated 1885] photograph possibly by Ludwig Bickell, in the Fotoarchiv des Landesamts für Denkmalpflege Hessen, Abt. Baudenkmalpflege, Außenstelle Marburg [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1888_Abbruch_ev._Johanneskirche_Biedenkopf.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD Old
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der alte Marktplatz von Biedenkopf in der Altstadt (heute "Oberstädter Marktplatz", "Oberer Markt" oder "Oberer Marktplatz" genannt). Blick (v.l.n.r.) auf die evangelische Stadtkirche, den Oberstädter Marktbrunnen, die Oberstadt-Linde und das erste Rathaus der Stadt; zwei weitere existieren noch. Fachwerkbau mit Mansarddach; 1717 abgebrannt, von 1732 bis 1935 Sitz der Stadtverwaltung. Zeitweilig Jugendherberge, nun Wohngebäude. Kellergeschoss mit gotischen Spitzbögen; inklusive Anbau (bis ca. Mitte 19. Jhdt. städtisches Brauhaus); Blick von der Hintergasse."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sir James, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 12 September 2011 by Sir James [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-09-12_Biedenkopf_Oberstaedter_Marktplatz.jpg] [accessed 9 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: " Deutschland, Hessen, Biedenkopf: Blick auf die Stadtkirche und Oberstadt (Altstadt)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sir James, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 21 May 2011 by Sir James [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2011-05-21_Stadtkirche_Biedenkopf.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: preparing the font for its restoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: rigging the font for its transit inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the rigged font is lifted by a front loader
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the font on a pallet being moved inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: positioning the font inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: positioning the font inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: positioning the font inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval basin being raised onto the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieval basin being raised onto the modern base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: fait accompli -- Proxit!
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: the medieival font restored to its place inside the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mittelhessen.de, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24351BIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Stadtkirche Biedenkopf / Ev-luth. Johanniskirche Biedenkopf
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Bei der Kirche 13, 35216 Biedenkopf, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6461 2580
Country Name: Germany
Location: Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off (N) county road 62, about 20 km NW of Marburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, centre aisle, E end
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: original 12thC church may have been dedicated to St Michael [Michaelskirche]; Transitional Johanniskirche of ca. 1250; much renovated 1690; dilapidated and closed 1864; partly demolished 1888; new church inaugurated 1891; renovated 1958 and 1978
Font Notes:
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The guide for this church in the Stadt Biedenkopf Luftkurort im oberen Lahntal [https://stadtrundgang.biedenkopf.de/stadtgeschichtlicher-rundweg/stadtkirche-chor.html] [accessed 9 October 2022] mentions two fonts here; the present font in use in this church is dated 1682 and originated in the Hospitalkirche; the other font is a monolithic tub located outside the vicarage, decorated with arches on its sides; the original base is missing. The old font was removed from the exterior of the church, where it had laid for many years, and reinstalled inside, restored to its original liturgical use in May 2019; the move was recorded in a series of photographs [cf. ImagesArea] in Mittelhessen.de on 30 May 2019 [https://www.ev-kirche-web.de/node/176] [accessed 9 2022]. The font has a prominent torus-scotia-torus decoration around the upper part, with a row of shallow round arch-heads all around; the base was missing and has been replaced with single quadrangular stone block; modern. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9133, 8.529133
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 47.88″ N, 8° 31′ 44.88″ E
UTM: 32U 466898 5640289
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: the hole is visible in one of the font moving photos
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Text: "1682 ist Johann Hermann Dör Hospitamensus gewesen"