Neu-Lohn / Lohn

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Glockenstuhl St. Silvester mit Aufdruck der alten Lohner Pfarrkirche" -- the bell-cote of the new church in Neu-Lohn displays a photograph of the destroyed old church of Lohn

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © MCuvelier, 2018

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2018 by MCuvelier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glockenstuhl_St._Silvester_mit_Plakat.jpg] [accessed 7 August 2023]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Achim Mertens, 1997

Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1997 drawing in Achim Mertens [http://www.st-silvester-lohn.de/taufstein.htm] [accessed 7 August 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24867LOH
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Silvester Neu-Lohn
Church Patron Saints: St. Silvester [aka Sylvester]
Church Location: Unnamed Road, 52249 Eschweiler, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Neu-Lohn is located off local road L238, 4-5 km S of Eschweiler, 25-30 km NE of Aachen
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen
Font Location in Church: Inside the new church
Date: ca. 1698?
Century and Period: 17th century(late?), Baroque
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: church documented 1310 but original wooden church probably 11thC; re-built in stone 12thC; demolished 1698 and re-built as a Baroque building; re-built 1903; church and town were blown up in December 1973 for an opencast mine; town and church re-built 1971-1972 as Neu-Lohn
Achim Mertens' Taufstein der Pfarrkirche St. Silvester Neu-Lohn / Fronhoven (January 1997) [http://www.st-silvester-lohn.de/taufstein.htm] [accessed 7 August 2023] informs that the old font from Lohn's medieval church served as planter in the new church between 1972 and 1996, when it was installed inside the replacement church in Neu-Lohn; an illustration in this source shows a stone font consisting of a plain hemispherical basin raised on a round pedestal base of the baluster-type, with a small round-to-square lower base; to judge by the design the font may date to the time when the medieval church was re-built ca. 1700.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.85767, 6.29453
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 51′ 27.61″ N, 6° 17′ 40.31″ E
UTM: 32U 309592 5637485

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: low-dome with Latin-cross finial