Pillig / Pillich / Pillig auf dem Maifeld / Pülich
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "katholische Pfarrkirche St. Firminus in Pillig im Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]
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inscription
Scene Description: "1603"
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - ribs framed in round arches
Scene Description: all around
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Image Source: digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pillig, Pfarrkirche, Kreis Mayen-Koblenz"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Klaus Graf / Historiograf, 2005
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 23 July 2005 by Claus Graf / Historiograf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_Kirche.jpg] [accessed 1 May 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "katholische Pfarrkirche St. Firminus in Pillig im Landkreis Mayen-Koblenz (Rheinland-Pfalz)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10202.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]
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symbol - shield - coat of arms
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Reinhardhauke, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 15 Spetember 2012 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pillig_St._Firminus_10189.JPG] [accessed 1 May 2023]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 24709PIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1603
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century(early), Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Firminus
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Firminus of Amiens [aka Fermin, Firmin]
Church Notes: present building of 1772 on the site of an earlier [Romanesque, Gothic] church
Church Address: L110 37, 56753 Pillig, Germany
Site Location: Mayen-Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L110 [aka Elztalstrasse], 10 KM SE of Mayen, about 25 km WSW of Koblenz
Additional Comments: disappeared font (the one from the medieval church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted in the Gemeinde Pillig web site [http://www.gemeinde-pillig.de/unser dorf.htm] [accessed 1 May 2023]: "1603 Taufbecken in der St. Firminuskirche". The stone font consists of a roughly hemispherical basin inscribed below the rim with the date 1603, the sides and underbowl decorated with a pattern on concave ribs framed in round arches, a rope moulding below; round stem; the lower base has a roll moulding atop then becomes square, one of the sides decorated with an emblem or coat of arms. Moulded metal font cover with cross finial.
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 379648 5566678
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "1603"
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]