Nassau an der Lahn

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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph in Carolina's Collection of Castles, Churches & Curiosities [http://www.hic-sunt-dracones.de/CCC2/johanniskirche_nassau.html] [accessed 31 October 2022]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Image Source: digital photograph in Carolina's Collection of Castles, Churches & Curiosities [http://www.hic-sunt-dracones.de/CCC2/johanniskirche_nassau.html] [accessed 31 October 2022]

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view of basin - drawing

Scene Description: Source caption: " Taufstein aus dem Kloster Arnstein, July 12, 1867"

Image Source: digital image of a 12 July 1867 drawing by Karl Theodor Reiffenstein, in the Städel Museum [https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/taufstein-aus-dem-kloster-arnstein] [accessed 31 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Nassau (Lahn): evangelische Pfarrkirche"

Image Source: digital photograph 8 October 2016 by Oliver Abels [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nassau_ev_Pfarrkirche_(2_KD_10_2016).jpg] [accessed 31 October 2022]

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph in Carolina's Collection of Castles, Churches & Curiosities [http://www.hic-sunt-dracones.de/CCC2/johanniskirche_nassau.html] [accessed 31 October 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24418NAS

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Johanniskirche Nassau

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Kettenbrückstraße 6, 56377 Nassau, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2604 1820

Country Name: Germany

Location: Rhein-Lahn, Rheinland-Pfalz

Directions to Site: Located off (E) county road B260 [aka Burgbergweg], on the E bank of the Lahn, about 20 km ESE of Koblenz

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Limburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

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: 11thC church; almost totally destroyed in WW; re-built

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this church in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Nassau/Lahn mit Winden [https://ev-kirche-nassau-winden.de/johanniskirche/] [accessed 31 October 2022] mentions an early-Gothic baptismal font in this church; the font has an octagonal basin decorated with a double moulding below the upper rim, and a row of trefoiled arch-heads below; raised on a broad central shaft and four outer colonnettes; the base appears modern, a later replacement. Metal font cover with bird finial; modern. The Städel Museum [https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/taufstein-aus-dem-kloster-arnstein] [accessed 31 October 2022] has a 12 July 1867 drawing [inv. no.: 10726-10806] of the basin by Karl Theodor Reiffenstein captioned with "Kloster Arnstein" as identification, so it should be assumed it was originally from that monastery church. [NB: the Premonstratensian monastery at Arnstein was founded in 1139; it was dissolved in 1803].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.3126, 7.797317

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 18′ 45.36″ N, 7° 47′ 50.34″ E

UTM: 32U 414369 5574080

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]