Hochheim bei Gotha / Hochheim in Nessetal

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design element - patterns - concave

Scene Description: all around the lower half of the font

Image Source: digital photograph in the Evangelische Kirche im Mitteldeutschland [https://www.ekmd.de/kirche/kirchenkreise/gotha/nessetal-hainich/emmaus-goldbach-wangenheim/hochheim/st-nicolai/] [accessed 22 December 2022]

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hochheim bei Gotha, Kirche"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 October 2016 by CTHOE [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochheim-Nikolaus-Kirche-1-CTH.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2022]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hochheim bei Gotha, Kirche"

Image Source: digital photograph 23 July 2011 by CTHOE [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochheim-Kirche-3.JPG] [accessed 22 December 2022]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Hochheim, St.-Nikolaus-Kirche, Blick ins Kirchenschiff"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 October 2016 by CTHOE [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochheim-Nikolaus-Kirche-3-CTH.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2022]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: although they are not very discernible in this image,there is a concave rib pattern all around the lower half of the font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 October 2016 by CTHOE [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hochheim-Nikolaus-Kirche-3-CTH.jpg] [accessed 22 December 2022]

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view of font - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Das wuchtige, romanische Taufbecken stammt vermutlich aus der Vorgängerkirche."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24536HOC

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche St. Nikolaus

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Kirchstraße 94, 99869 Nessetal OT Hochheim, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Gotha, Thüringen

Directions to Site: Located off local road N7 [ala Goldbacher Str.], W of county road 247, in the municipality and 3 km N of Nesetal, 8 km NNW of Gotha, about 25 km WNW of Erfurt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

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: pilgrimage church documented 1411; modified 1515, 1616, 1875; renovated 2015

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The entry for this church in the Evangelische Kirche im Mitteldeutschland [https://www.ekmd.de/kirche/kirchenkreise/gotha/nessetal-hainich/emmaus-goldbach-wangenheim/hochheim/st-nicolai/] [accessed 22 December 2022] reports and illustrates a massive Romanesque baptismal font probably from the earlier church here: "Das wuchtige, romanische Taufbecken stammt vermutlich aus der Vorgängerkirche."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.0176, 10.6597

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 3.36″ N, 10° 39′ 34.92″ E

UTM: 32U 616413 5653093

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round