Muggendorf
Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
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angel - cherub - head - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a circle of, all around the lower end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - garland - fruit - 4
Scene Description: a garland with a hanging bunch of fruit between the cherub heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: showing the stone through the chipped paint
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Scene Description: the upper moulding is octagonal, the lower one, wound
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelisch Lutherische Pfarrkirche Sankt Laurenzius in Muggendorf"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Kirche-Sankt-Laurenzius-PA230050-PS.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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view of church interior - looking east
![the font and cover are visible at the east end of the nave, [left] north side](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1221201026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the font and cover are visible at the east end of the nave, [left] north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Muggendorf, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Muggendorf [https://www.muggendorf-evangelisch.de/st-laurentius-muggendorf] [accessed 1 December 2022]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein in der evangelisch lutherische Pfarrkirche Sankt Laurenzius in Muggendorf"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ermell [Reinhold], 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 23 October 2016 by ermell [Reinhold] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf-Taufbecken-PA230018.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Laurentiuskirche Altar, im März 2012"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Derzno, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 18 March 2012 by Derzno [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Muggendorf_05.jpg] [accessed 2 December 2022]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Muggendorf, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelisch-lutherische Kirchengemeinde Muggendorf [https://www.muggendorf-evangelisch.de/st-laurentius-muggendorf] [accessed 1 December 2022]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 24479MUG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Laurentius, Muggendorf
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Bayreuther Str., 91346 Wiesenttal, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9196 327
Country Name: Germany
Location: Forchheim, Bayern
Directions to Site: Locate off (E) county road 470, in the municipality and 3 km SE of Wiesenttal, about 20 km NE of Forchheim
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side
Date: 1688
Century and Period: 17th century(late), Baroque
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: re-built after fire of 1632; enlarged 1740s; modified 18th, 19thC -- Listed monument [Denkmalnummer D-4-74-176-3]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font bears the date 1688. The font has an octagonal basin top with a rounded bowl decorated with cherub heads and garlands with fruit, the lower end of the underbowl decorated with a band of short foliage; the upper base is octagonal-to-round; the lower base is round-to-square. Gilded font cover in the shape of an octagonal crown, decorated with eight angel heads and profuse foliage scrolls.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.802935, 11.262538
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 48′ 10.57″ N, 11° 15′ 45.14″ E
UTM: 32U 662804 5519176
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: the date 1688 may be inscribed somewhere on th font
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th-18th century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]