Asmushausen

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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing a little stone basin inside the larger one

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "church in Bebra-Asmushausen near Kassel/Hesse"

Image Source: digital photograph 9 April 2014 by Licas Friese [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Asmushausen.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2023]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: the caption gives the date 1952-1969; the photograph shows the medieval basin upturned and serving as base to the pulpit at the time

Image Source: digital image of a [ca. 1969?] photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: the caption gives the date 1960; the photograph shows the medieval basin upturned and serving as base to the pulpit at the time

Image Source: digital image of a [ca. 1969?] photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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view of font

Scene Description: showing the font in its right position and back to its liturgical function [ca. 2020?]

Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24855ASM

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-unierte Bergkirche Asmushausen

Church Location: Am Schwimmbad 14, 36179 Bebra, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Hersfeld-Rotenburg, Hesse

Directions to Site: Asmushausen is ocated off (SE) the Bd27, in the municipality and 5 km N of Bebra, 25-30 km SE of Kassel

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

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: late-Gothic [ca. 1480?] church with later modifications

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

A round basin in Asmushausen ["die runden Becken zu Asmushausen"] is mentioned in Heinrich Otte's Handbuch der kirchlichen Kunst-Archäologie des deutschen Mittelalters. 3., umgearb. Aufl. (1883: 311) [https://archive.org/details/handbuchderkirc00ottegoog/page/310/mode/2up] [accessed 3 August 2023]. A medieval font in Asmushausen is noted in Dieter Grossman's Der Taufstein zu Oberhaun, in the Kunstchronik, September 1956, Heft 9 [74938-Artikeltext-207528-1-10-20200819-2.pdf] [accessed 3 August 2023] as a former baptismal font that had been turned into a support for the pulpit in 1662 ["In Asmushausen (Kr. Rotenburg/F.), wo der Taufstein 1662 ebenfalls zum Kanzelfuß umgearbeitet wurde, schmückt den allein erhaltenen beckenartigen Oberteil ein Rundbogenfries." The font is now [2022] back to its original position and liturgical use. No cover present. A communication from Pol Herman to BSI (e-mail of 4 August 2022) the question is raised whether the 12th-century font was originally from Asmushausen itself, or had been brought in from elsewhere; there had been a church in the village before the Bergkirche was built on its present site but we have not found any mention of a 12th-century church here.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.010697, 9.819787

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 0′ 38.51″ N, 9° 49′ 11.23″ E

UTM: 32U 557510 5651334

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining