Mansbach / Mansbach in der Rhön

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coat of arms - Mansbach Family - in a quatrefoil

Scene Description: seen here on the south side of the basin; one of two [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 8

Scene Description: forming a tracery pattern all around; two of the quatrefoils -not visible here- have charged shields in them

Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2020 by Robert , in Die Kirche in Mansbach [https://www.komoot.fr/highlight/1217443] [accessed 16 December 2022]

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: stops and mouldings

Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2020 by Robert , in Die Kirche in Mansbach [https://www.komoot.fr/highlight/1217443] [accessed 16 December 2022]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "die Kirche von Mansbach"

Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2018 by GeorgDerReisende [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche,_1,_Mansbach,_Hohenroda,_Landkreis_Hersfeld-Rotenburg.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2022]

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view of font and cover - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: seen here on the left [north] side, opposite the pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph 13 April 2020 by Robert , in Die Kirche in Mansbach [https://www.komoot.fr/highlight/1217443] [accessed 16 December 2022]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24517MAN

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche in Mansbach

Church Location: Thüringer Str. 5, 36284 Hohenroda, Germany / Buttlarstraße/Kirchgasse, 36284 Hohenroda-Mansbach, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hesse

Directions to Site: Located off road L3173, in the municipality and 2-3 km S of Hohenroda, 25-30 km NNE of Fulda

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NE corner of the nave

Date: ca. 1510?

Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font

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: late-Gothic church re-built from earlier burial chapel; modified ca. 1500; tower added 1564; modified 17th, 18thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Hans-H. Hartmann [https://www.hna.de/lokales/rotenburg-bebra/wohnzimmer-gemeinde-2738475.html] [accessed 16 December 2022] as a late-Gothic baptismal font made of sandstone ca. 1510; the octagonal basin has rounded sides and underbowl decorated with tracery in the form of large quatrefoils inscribed in rounded frames; two of the quatrefoils have shields charged with the Mansbach family coat of arms in them; the stem and lower base are also octagonal and decorated with arches/windows on the upper part and multiple stops on the moulded lower base. The plain low-dome metal font cover appears modern.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.783333, 9.915278

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 47′ 0″ N, 9° 54′ 55″ E

UTM: 32U 564523 5626130

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?

Material: metal, brass?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]