Reichelsheim

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Michaelskirche (Evangelische Pfarrkiche) in Reichelsheim"

Image Source: digital photograph 14 March 2020 by Muck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michaelskirche_(Reichelsheim).jpg] [accessed 22 July 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: notice also the wall-mounted stoup on the left side of the image: late-Gothic?

Image Source: digital image of an undated B&W photograph by Heinrich Rudolph Walbe, in Historische Aufnahmen von Reichelsheim, in Wetteraukreis, der Kreisausschuss [https://wetteraukreis.de/wetterau/portraet/staedte-gemeinden/historische-aufnahmen/reichelsheim] [accessed 22 July 2023]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Im Altarraum steht ein Taufbecken aus Lungstein (Basaltlavastein), das lange Jahre vor der Kirche stand."

Image Source: edited detail of a 2017 digital photograph by Alexander Hitz, in Reichelsheim in der Wetterau [https://www.alexanderhitz.de/images/reichelsheim/kirche/innen/taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 22 July 2023]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken in der Reichelsheimer Kirche"

Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev. Kirchengemeinde Reichelsheim/Wetterau [https://reichelsheim-heuchelheim.ekhn.de/startseite/amtshandlungen/taufe.html] [accessed 22 July 2023]

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 24810REI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church / Chapel Name: Evangelische Michaelskirche Reichelsheim

Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]

Church Patron Saint(s): St. Michael

Church Notes: mid-13thC church; re-built late-15thC; modified 18th, 19thC; renovated 20thC

Church Address: Rathauspl. 6, 64385 Reichelsheim (Odenwald), Germany -- Tel.: +49 6164 1202

Site Location: Odenwald, Hesse, Germany, Europe

Directions to Site: Located off (W) the K75, N of Bd38, about 45 km SSE of Frankfurt-a-M

Additional Comments: disused font (stood unused outside the church for many years; now restored to use inside [cf. FontNotes])

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font made of lava stone (basalt) noted and illustrated in the Ev. Kirchengemeinde Reichelsheim/Wetterau [https://reichelsheim-heuchelheim.ekhn.de/startseite/amtshandlungen/taufe.html] [accessed 22 July 2023]; the entry remarks that the font stood disused for many years outside the church. Exactly in that condition and location is shown in a B&W photograph by Heinrich Rudolph Walbe, in Historische Aufnahmen von Reichelsheim, in Wetteraukreis, der Kreisausschuss [https://wetteraukreis.de/wetterau/portraet/staedte-gemeinden/historische-aufnahmen/reichelsheim] [accessed 22 July 2023].
A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 11 October 2022) notes: "Einen alten Taufstein erwähnt Dieffenbach im Archiv für Hessische Geschichte Bd. VL S 238. Er ist schlicht rund, verbreitert sich nach oben bis zu einem vortretenden Rande und ist aus Lungenbasalt hergestellt."

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 488423 5506873

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.714255, 8.839409

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 42′ 51.32″ N, 8° 50′ 21.87″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, basalt

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round