Himmelsberg
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Himmelsberg (Kirchhain)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hydro, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 9 October 2011 by Hydro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Himmelsberg_(Kirchhain).jpg] [accessed 10 October 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oberhessische Presse, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph in Oberhessische Presse [https://www.op-marburg.de/Landkreis/Ostkreis/Schutz-fuer-1000-Jahre-alten-Taufstein] [accessed 10 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24354JIM
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Rrömisch-katholische Kirche St. Nikolaus Himmelsberg
Font Location in Church: Outside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: chapel here documented 1684; church demolished 1869; re-built 1870;
Church Address: Am Grün, Himmelsberg, 35274 Kirchhain, Germany
Site Location: Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (S) local road K11 [aka Wolfgangstrasse], in the municipality of Kirchhain, S of county road 3, N of county road, about 15 km ENE of Marburg
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Fulda
Additional Comments: disused font? (it remains outside the church, now topped with a protective meatl cover
Font Notes:
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A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 27 Jube 2022) refers to a 9 Decmber 2011 article by Matthias Mayer and Karin Waldhüter in the Oberhessische Presse [Oberhessische Presse https://www.op-marburg.de/Landkreis/Ostkreis/Schutz-fuer-1000-Jahre-alten-Taufstein] [accessed 10 October 2022] which describes the old font that had been standing for over forty years outside the church, since the demolition of the previous church in 1869; the new church was consecrated in August 1871 and the old font was colocated outside it; a cover was devised and executed vy Alfons Preis, Reinhold Jennemann, Otto Boland, Leo Falker, Manfred Schraub, Ulrich Preis and Markus Jennemann to protect the font. The font, illustrated in the article above with a new shiny metal cover, appears to be made or reddish sandstone; it is octagonal in shape and is moulded at the upper end.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 493994 5634152
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.859032, 8.914667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 51′ 32.51″ N, 8° 54′ 52.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]