Melbach

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design element - architectural - arch or window - trefoiled - 8

Image Source: digital photograph 25 April 2021 by Förderverein Evangelische Kirche Melbach e.V. in Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2947425945477478&set=a.1837938866426197] [accessed 19 July 2023]

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view of basin in context - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Unser heutiges Bild zeigt einen gotischen Taufstein. Dieser fand sich hinter der Sakristei. Allerdings scheint es sich hierbei um ein Weihwasserbecken aus der ehemaligen Klosterkirche Nieder-Ilbenstadt zu handeln. Das Becken besaß einen Fuß aus Sandstein der vermutlich abgebrochen ist."

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Glockenturm der evangelisch-lutherischen Kirche in Melbach. Südseite des Turmes (also Blickrichtung Norden)."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 4 March 2009 by Nils E. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glockenturm_ev._Kirche_Melbach.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24792MEL

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche Melbach

Church Location: Große G. 31, 61200 Wölfersheim, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6036 5020

Country Name: Germany

Location: Darmstadt, Hesse

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the Bd455, in the municipality and 2 km S of Wölfersheim, about 40 km NE of Frankfurt-a-M

Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]

Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this object to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: previous church dedicated to St James the Greater; re-built nearby 18thC; re-built 1816

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The object appears to be an octagonal basin of a Gothic baptismal font, now relegated to the outside of the church in Melbach; the sides of the octagon are carved with trefoiled arches or windows, one on each panel; the outside of the basin is painted a reddish hue; the inside well of the basin is round, without a lining; no base present. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 10 October 2022) informs: "Gotischer Taufstein. Dieser befand sich hinter der Sakristie. Allerdings scheint es sich hierbei um ein Weihwasserbecken aus der ehemaligen Klosterkirche Nieder-Ilbenstadt zu handeln. Das Becken besass einen Fuss aus Sandstein der abgebrochen ist", but we have not been able to corroborate this information anywhere else.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.38089, 8.80948

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 22′ 51.2″ N, 8° 48′ 34.13″ E

UTM: 32U 486454 5580999

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining