Laubach No. 2
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Results: 3 records
design element - architectural - arch-head - round
Scene Description: Source caption: "Steinerner Trog (Taufstein?) auf Schloss Laubach"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1864 drawing by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main [https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/carltheodor-reiffenstein/steinerner-trog-taufstein-auf-schloss-laubach-1.html] [accessed 10 October 2022]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Steinerner Trog (Taufstein?) auf Schloss Laubach"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2022
Image Source: digital image of a 1864 drawing by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main [https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/carltheodor-reiffenstein/steinerner-trog-taufstein-auf-schloss-laubach-2.html] [accessed 10 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Schloss der Grafen zu Solms-Laubach, Laubach (Hessen), vom Schlosspark "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carl Hannig, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 3 May 2008 by Carl Hannig [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schloss_Laubach.jpg] [accessed 10 October 2022]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 24355LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Schloss Laubach
Church Location: [address & coordinates are given for the castle] Laubach, 35321 Laubach, Deutschland
Country Name: Germany
Location: Giessen, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off (W) county road 286 [Bundestrasse 276], about 25 km E of Gießen
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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There are two 1864 drawings by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein, in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main [https://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/carltheodor-reiffenstein/steinerner-trog-taufstein-auf-schloss-laubach-1.html] [accessed 10 October 2022] of an object that appears very similar to several medieval baptismal font in the area; the drawings are captioned: "Steinerner Trog (Taufstein?) auf Schloss Laubach" [NB: we have no information on the present whereabouts of this object, or where it came from originally -- was it the medieval church at Laubach?].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.544297, 8.991858
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 32′ 39.47″ N, 8° 59′ 30.69″ E
UTM: 32U 499423 5599151
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round