Dodenau No. 1

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
design element - motifs - moulding
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Scene Description: "Kreisheimatmuseum, Kloster Sankt Georgenberg. Romanisches Taufbecken, Sandstein. Ursprünglicher Standort: Dodenau, Mitte 12. Jh"
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Image Source: digital photograph 19 July 2011 [source not given] supplied by Pol Herman
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INFORMATION
FontID: 24719DOD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Kreisheimatmuseum, Kloster St. Georgenberg, Bahnhofstrasse 8-12, 35066 Frankenberg (Eder), Germany
Church/Chapel: [Evangelische Kirche Dodenau?]
Church Patron Saints: [St. Martin]
Church Location: NB: address & coordinates are for the Dodenau church] Glockenweg 1, 35088 Battenberg (Eder), Germany -- Tel.: +49 6452 9390304
Country Name: Germany
Location: Waldeck-Frankenberg, Hesse
Directions to Site: [address of the original church] off the L3382 [aka Elsoffer Str.], N of the B253, 6-7 km WNW of Battenberg, 25-30 km NNW of Marburg
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Font Notes:
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A Romanesque baptismal font of the mid-12th century made of sandstone and originating from Dodenau is reported in the Kreisheimatmuseum, Kloster St. Georgenberg. The object is tub-shaped, decorated with a round moulding at the upper rim of the basin, and a blind arcade of round arches around the mid and lower basin sides; there is much damage to the upper basin area, with a significant part of it missing. The label in the museum [cf. ImagesArea] gives the origin of the font as Dodenau [cf. BSI entry for Dodenau No. 2 for the present 17th-century font in that church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.02479, 8.593273
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 1′ 29.24″ N, 8° 35′ 35.78″ E
UTM: 32U 471475 5652660