Ossweil / Oßweil in Ludwigsburg
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view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Januariuskirche in Oßweil von Südosten"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © P. Fendrich, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 20 May 2017 by P. Fendrich [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Januariuskirche_Ossweil_vSO_PF1196A_1705W.jpg] [accessed 21 December 2022]
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Oßweil, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Oßweil [https://www.kirche-ossweil.de/gemeinden/kirche-gemeindezentrum.html] [accessed 21 December 2022]
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design element - motifs - branches and foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Oßweil, 2019
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Oßweil [https://www.kirche-ossweil.de/gemeinden/kirche-gemeindezentrum.html] [accessed 21 December 2022]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [s.n., s.d.]
Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 24533OSS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Januarius, Oßweil
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE corner of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Januarius
Church Notes: present church is late-15thC
Church Address: Westfalenstraße 13, 71640 Ludwigsburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 7141 861619
Site Location: Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) of local road L1140 [aka Friedricstraße], in the E outskirts of Ludwigsburg, about 15 km NNE of Stuttgart
Font Notes:
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Noted in Paul Keppler, Württemberg’sche kirchliche Kunstalterthümer (Rottenburg 1888: 207). Noted in Eduard Paulus, Die Kunst- und Alterthums-Denkmale im Neckarkreis, (Eduard Paulus (Hg.), Kunst- und Alterthums-Denkmale im Königreich Württemberg (Stuttgart 1889: 371). Listed in Meier-Kreikott (2011) (Kat. Nr. 153) as a baptismal font made of grey sandstone in the late-15th century, the basin decorated with branches [NB: author gives Keppler, Paulus [cf. supra] and Dehio 1993, S. 616. as references]. Noted and illustrated in the Evangelische Kirche Ossweil site [https://www.kirche-ossweil.de/gemeinden/kirche-gemeindezentrum.html] [accessed 21 December 2022]: "Das Taufbecken ist kostbares Zeugnis spätgotischer Steinmetzkunst, besonders die Astwerkornamentik, die an den „himmlischen Paradiesgarten" erinnert."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 516720 5415550
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 48.89267, 9.22811
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 48° 53′ 33.61″ N, 9° 13′ 41.2″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 80 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Meier-Kriskott (2011)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal, brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: low-cone shape with bird finial; modern
REFERENCES
- Meier-Kreiskott, Stefanie, "Spätgotische Taufsteine im deutschen Südwesten", [e-version available], München, 2011, (Kat. Nr. 153) p. 87, 297, 454