Herchen
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Image Source: digital image in Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, Paul Clemen, Fünfter Band, die Kunstdenkmäler des Siegkreises, 1907, S. 783
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Image Source: digital image in Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, Paul Clemen, Fünfter Band, die Kunstdenkmäler des Siegkreises, 1907, S. 783
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Peter Herchen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tohma, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph 1 July 2007 by Tohma [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Peter_Herchen.jpg] [accessed 11 December 2022]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Spätgotische Wandmalereien in der katholischen Kirche St. Peter in Windeck-Herchen. Dargestellt ist die Jakobuslegende."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Leckherchen, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2022 by Leckherchen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wandmalereien_Kirche_St._Peter_Herchen_(3).jpg] [accessed 10 Dece,ber 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24493HER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St . Peter in Herchen
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: Höher Landstraße 8, 51570 Windeck, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off the L312-L333 crossroads, in the municipality and about 4 km W of Windeck, 30 km E of Bonn
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
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: church here first mention 1131; modified 1617;
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz, Paul Clemen, Fünfter Band, die Kunstdenkmäler des Siegkreises, 1907, S. 783 as an Early Gothic (13th-14th century?) baptismal font made of trachyte; it consists of a hexagonal basin raised on a broad central shaft and six outer colonnttes on a hexagonal lower base; the basin is decorated with a blind arcade of trefoiled arches: "Frühgotischer Taufstein des 13.-14. Jh. aus Trachyt, ein breites sechszeitiges Becken mit einer Gliederung durch nasenbesetzte Spitzbogen, auf einem schweren runden Schaft mit 6 Säulchen ohne Kapitelle und Basen. Das Ganze 1 Meter hoch, 1,20 Meter breit und auf einem sechseckigen Platte, die noch die alte Piscina zeigt."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.781499, 7.511904
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 46′ 53.39″ N, 7° 30′ 42.85″ E
UTM: 32U 395094 5626583
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]