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Scene Description: "barocke Taufbecken wurde aus Blaustein gefertigt und ist mit vier Masken verziert. Es entstand um das Jahr 1600." [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 29 October 2017 by Karlunun [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viersen_St_Remigius_Taufstein_8091_201710.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Panoramablick über den Remigiusplatz (Kirche St. Remigius im Hintergrund) in Viersen."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 16 July 2007 by Ichmichi / Ichmichi2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pano_remigiusplatz.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Viersen (Alt-Viersen): St. Remigiuskirche, Taufstein barock (um 1600), aus Blaustein, Taufdeckel jünger"

Image Source: digital photograph 29 October 2017 by Karlunun [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viersen_St_Remigius_Taufstein_8091_201710.jpg] [accessed 30 August 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 24886VIE

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholisches Kirche Sankt Remigius zu Viersen

Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]

Church Location: Remigiuspl. 11a, 41747 Viersen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2162 93140

Country Name: Germany

Location: Viersen, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off (E) the L29-L39 crossroads, E of the Bd61, 10 km N of Mönchengladbach, 25-30 km W of Düsseldorf

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, S aisle, W end

Date: ca. 1600?

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century[basin only], Baroque [basin only]

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: 8th-9thC Carolingian church made of stone; re-built ca. 1181; re-built 14thC; tower of 1350; present church of 1484; renovated 1704; damaged in WWII and restored thereafter; renovated 2004-1018

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Viersen: "Auf den Turm der Remigiuskirche" [https://www.kreiter.info/familie/docs/reiseberichte/viersen/remigiuskirche.htm] [accessed 30 August 2023] as a Baroque baptismal font made of blue limestone ca. 1600, decorated with masks; the later cover is decorated with angels heads and has a Baptism of Christ figural finial ["Das im südlichen Seitenschiff seitlich des Turms stehende barocke Taufbecken wurde aus Blaustein gefertigt und ist mit vier Masken verziert. Es entstand um das Jahr 1600. Der deutlich jüngere Taufdeckel ist mit Engelsköpfen und Ornamenten geschmückt, die kleine aufgesetzte Figurengruppe erinnert an die Taufe Christi."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.259834, 6.387819

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 15′ 35.4″ N, 6° 23′ 16.15″ E

UTM: 32U 317744 5681962

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Mosan limeston)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: metal,