Weingarten

The entry for Weingarten (Pfalz) in Otto Böcher's DIE ENTWICKLUNG DES LÖWENTAUFSTEINS IN DER HESSISCHEN UND RHEINFRÄNKISCHEN GOTIK [https://www.worms.de/neu-de-wAssets/docs/bildung-bieten/Stadtarchiv/Wormsgau/Der-Wormsgau-5-1961-1962/Nr.3_bd.5WG_-5.-Band.pdf] [accessed 6 November 2022] lists and illustrates a baptismal font or red sandstone of ca. 1500 consisting of a hemispherical basin on a cylindrical pedestal base; the basin was decorated with an arcade of trefoiled arches with the supports ending down on inverted lillies; two of the arches housed each a shield charged with a coat of arms; the font, formerly from the Catholic Parish Church of St Michael, was destroyed in 1945; on the unidentified coats of arms Böcher (ibid.) adds that two of his sources, Eckardt and Reitzenstein suspect a marriage crest related to the Family von Usickheim (Uissigheim), named after Uissigheim near Lauda (Kr. Tauberbischofsheim); some measurements also included in this source. [NB: other such fonts of the same period and similar decoration -cotas of arms excepted- are listed in BSI for the area]