Reiskirchen / Reiskirchen in Hüttenberg

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design element - architectural - arcade - horseshoe arches
Scene Description: with support on every other arch-head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cherubino, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 28 September 2013 by Cherubino [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Pfarrkirche_Reiskirchen_42.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - scotia
view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: showing the disused font used as a duck pond in the rectory garden
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph in the Arkiv Fotofreunde Reiskirchen, reproduced in Michael Breuer [Huttenberg78-low.pdf] [accessed 1 May 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD
view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Protestant church in Reiskirchen Tennenwald / Hesse / Germany"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © UuMUfQ, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph 1 March 2013 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reiskirchen_Kirche_d.png] [accesed 19 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche (Reiskirchen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cherubino, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2014 by Cherubino [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_(Reiskirchen)_Blick_nach_Osten_02.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche (Reiskirchen)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cherubino, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 14 September 2014 by Cherubino [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_(Reiskirchen)_Blick_nach_Westen_01.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Pfarrkirche Reiskirchen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cherubino, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 28 September 2013 by Cherubino [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Pfarrkirche_Reiskirchen_42.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the font being used as a planter
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph in the Arkiv Fotofreunde Reiskirchen, reproduced in Michael Breuer [Huttenberg78-low.pdf] [accessed 1 May 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD
view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the disused font; the people in the photograph help the viewer get a sense of the object size
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1949 photograph in the Arkiv Fotofreunde Reiskirchen, reproduced in Michael Breuer [Huttenberg78-low.pdf] [accessed 1 May 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: a detail of the front cover of the Hüttenberg Journal No. 78 (2024)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Breuer / Hüttenberg Journal, 2024
Image Source: digital image of the cover of the Hüttenberg Journal [Huttenberg78-low.pdf] [accessed 1 May 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font in context
Scene Description: the old tub font back in the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Breuer / Hüttenberg Journal, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Michael Breuer in the Hüttenberg Journal, 2024 [Huttenberg78-low.pdf] [accessed 1 May 2024]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 24791REI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche Reiskirchen
Church Location: Oberdorfstraße 38, 35447 Reiskirchen, Hüttenberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6408 62146
Country Name: Germany
Location: Giessen, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off road 49, just E of the Bd5, in the municipality of Hüttenberg, 11 km E of Giessen city centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: the font at Vollnkirchen
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: original church ca. 10thC; became parish church 1226; Reformed ca. 1590; re-built 1771 retaining the medieval tower; renovated 1934 and 1993
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Niederwetz/Reiskirchen [https://www.kirchengemeinde-nwrk.de/über-uns/gebäude/kirche-reiskirchen/] [accessed 19 July 2023] notes an ancient baptismal font that had been relegated to old vicarage where it served as a duck pond, and later as a planter outside the church until 1979, when it was restored to its function inside the church ["Das alte Taufbecken erfüllt seit 1979 wieder seinen ursprünglichen Zweck, nachdem es zeitweise als Blumenkübel vor der Kirche und davor sogar als Ententeich neben dem alten Pfarrhaus genutzt wurde. Der Aufsatz aus Metall zum Abstellen des Taufkruges wurde ebenfalls in diesem Jahr gefertigt. Auch die alten Abendmahl- und Taufgeräte, die lange Zeit im Pfarrhaus aufbewahrt wurden, stehen heute wieder in der Kirche."] The story of the recovery of this font is narrated and illustrated by Michael Breuer in the Hüttenberg Journal, No. 78, 2024 [Huttenberg78-low.pdf] [accessed 1 May 2024] with early illustrations from the time when it was used as a duck pond. The tub-shaped basin shows drilled holes at the upper rim, evidence of anchorings for a cover, but none is present now; the sides show a scotia below the upper rim, and a pattern of shallow horseshoe arches that have supports on every other arch-head all around; it rests directly on the ground.
A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 6 March 2024) includes the PDF copy of the Hüttenberg Journal [cf. supra] and notes: "This font is almost identical to the font at Vollnkirchen. Both villages are part of the bigger municipality of Hüttenberg."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.597483, 8.83493
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 35′ 50.94″ N, 8° 50′ 5.75″ E
UTM: 32U 488317 5605078
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining