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]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24354JIM
Church/Chapel: Rrömisch-katholische Kirche St. Nikolaus Himmelsberg
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Am Grün, Himmelsberg, 35274 Kirchhain, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse
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
Font Location in Church: Outside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
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: chapel here documented 1684; church demolished 1869; re-built 1870;
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
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.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.859032,
8.914667
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 51′ 32.51″ N,
8° 54′ 52.8″ E
UTM: 32U 493994 5634152
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone?
Font Shape: ovc
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material:
metal,
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]