Volberg / Hoffnungsthal / Volfberg in Rösrath

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design element - architectural - arch-head - round

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2010 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volberg_(Hoffnungsthal)Evangelische_Kirche551.JPG] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Evangelische Kirche Volberg (Hoffnungsthal)" -- the small rounded apse is now the sacristy but was the original apse of the medieval church

Image Source: digital photograph March 2012 by Chris06 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_Volberg_(Hoffnungsthal)4.JPG] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rösrath, Deutschland: Evangelische Kirche Volberg"

Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2014 by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoffnungsthal_Germany_Evangelische-Kirche-Volberg-01.jpg] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of church interior - altar and font

Scene Description: the modern [late-18th? / 19th-century font

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "evangelische Kirche Volberg in Hoffnungsthal, Innenansicht"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2010 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volberg_(Hoffnungsthal)Evangelische_Kirche527.JPG] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "evangelische Kirche Volberg in Hoffnungsthal, Taufbecken"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 November 2010 by Reinhardhauke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Volberg_(Hoffnungsthal)Evangelische_Kirche551.JPG] [accessed 6 August 2023]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "In der romanischen Sakristei aus dem dem 12. Jahrhundert, dem früheren Altarraum der Vorgängerkirche steht heute der noch verwendete alte Taufstein der Kirche, der ebenfalls aus dem 12. Jahrhundert stammt. Die Fresken wurden vorsichtig restauriert"

INFORMATION

FontID: 24861VOL

Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche Volberg in Hoffnungsthal

Church Location: Volberg 1, 51503 Rösrath, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Rheinisch-Bergische, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located NE of the Bd3, in the municipality and 2 km NNE of Rösrath, about 20 km E of Cologne city centre

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the old sacristy

Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]

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: Click to view font notes

There are two fonts in this church; the font located in the chancel, left of the altar, consists of an octagonal basin on a baluster-type pedestal base is from 1703 [therefore excluded from the BSI scope]; the font from the medieval church here is now located in the restored chancel of the old church, now re-purposed as sacristy; according to the Evangelische Gemeinde Volberg Forsbach Rösrath [https://www.evkirche-roesrath.de/index.php/gruppen-und-veranstaltungen/besichtigung-volberger-kirche/] [accessed 6 August 2023], the old font is still used for baptisms. The two fonts are described and illustrated in a section of Als die Steinhauer in Lindlar ihre Zunft aufrichteten und den Marmor brachen: Die gewerbliche Nutzung des Lindlarer Marmors in den letzten vier Jahrhunderten mit vielen Fakten zur Heimatgeschichte aus diesen Zeiten und Beiträgen von Prof. Dr. Ulrich Jux und Friedhelm Servos (Lindlar: Günter Jacobi, 2007); this section quotes Gustav Halke (1938) who, while praising the basin for its beatifully simple design and excution, suggests the base was an unhappy replacement, as the original base would have had outer colonnettes linking the corner 'capitals' of the basin to the original base. The Jux & Servos source [cf. supra] further notes that the medieval font was removed from service in 1701 and suffered indignities such as life as a buried planter in a garden ca. 1900, until its eventual restoration to service in the church where it originated. The same source informs that the later font, also in use in the church, was made in 1703 by master Lennert in Lindlar at a cost of 20 Rth. The same source cites Gerda Panofsky-Soergel's description of the two fonts in Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis(= Die Denkmäler des Rheinlandes Band 18-20). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1972, in which the old font is noted as being a six-sided hemispherical cauldron made of andesite (an aphanitic igneous rock), measuring 59 cm in height, 106 cm in outer diamter, and dating from ca. 1200; she described the later font as being octagonal, habing been made by Lennert in Lindlar in 1703.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.9146, 7.19424

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 54′ 52.56″ N, 7° 11′ 39.26″ E

UTM: 32U 373062 5641881

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, andesite

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

Drainage Notes: no lining

Basin Total Height: 59 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 106 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [cf. FontNotes]