Flieden
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
Scene Description: in one of the hexagonal panels
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - flat moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding - graded
Scene Description: all around the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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design element - motifs - piping
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: all around the basin and underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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human figure - unidentified
Scene Description: several; one of them may be an abbot or a bishop
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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inscription
Scene Description: the date 1495 split into two cartouches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel, 2023
Image Source: digital image an 1880 drawing in the Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel [Vorl. Nr.: H Hoffmann 14] [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CRAZX7NWFZXR2U6JJCBGTFBPDGMOBTHZ] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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scene [unidentified]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hauptportal der Pfarrkirche St. Goar in Flieden"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johannes Müller, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 18 August 2008 by Johannes Müller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Goar_Flieden,_Frontportal.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hochaltar in der katholischen Pfarrkirche St. Goar, Flieden."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johannes Müller, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 18 August 2008 by Johannes Müller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Goar_Flieden_-_Hochaltar.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hauptschiff mit Orgel von St. Goar (Flieden)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Johannes Müller, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 18 August 2008 by Johannes Müller [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Goar_Flieden_-_Hauptschiff_mit_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche zu Flieden. H Hoffmann Taufsteine 9 Blatt 19.III.10. Verweis: Nachweis: Dehio Hessen I (2008) S. 233"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel, 2023
Image Source: digital image an 1880 drawing in the Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel [Vorl. Nr.: H Hoffmann 14] [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CRAZX7NWFZXR2U6JJCBGTFBPDGMOBTHZ] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein / Taufbecken der Kirche Flieden."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hotel-Zentrale.de / B. Mett, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Hotel-Zentrale.de / B. Mett [https://www.hotel-zentrale.de/fotos/2660-Flieden/11725-Taufbecken-Fliedenjpg] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Taufkapelle, ältester Teil der Fliedner Kirche (vor dem 17. Jh.) mit dem Taufstein aus 1495 und dem ursprünglichen Hauptaltar (Kreuzaltar)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V., 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25014FLI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Goar, Flieden
Church Patron Saints: St. Goar
Church Location: Hauptstraße 31, 36103 Flieden, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Fulda, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off the L3141 [aka Hauptstrasse], W of Bd66, about 22 km SW of Fulda
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Fulda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel
Date: 1495
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
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 first documented 1244; church built 13th-16thC; expanded 1717-1720 and 1926-1927;
Font Notes:
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A drawing of this baptismal font is noted and illustrated in an 1880 drawing in the Landeskirchliches Archiv Kassel [Vorl. Nr.: H Hoffmann 14] [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CRAZX7NWFZXR2U6JJCBGTFBPDGMOBTHZ] [accessed 31 October 2023]. Noted and illustrated in Heimatverein Königreich Flieden e.V. [https://www.heimatverein-flieden.de/index.php/unsereheimatflieden] [accessed 31 October 2023] as a baptismal font dated 1495 and located in the baptistery chapel of this church. The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Goar_(Flieden)] [accessed 31 October 2023] reports a baptismal font dated 1495 here. The font consists of an octagonal basin with rounded tapering sides decorated with tracery that makes eight hexagonal panels containing scenes, figures and the date 1405 inscribed in two of them, raised on a short octagonal stem decorated with piping, and a splaying lower base, octagonal as well, devorated with graded mouldings on which are several human figures, one of which appears to be an abbott or bishop. Low-dome metal cover with small finial.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.42297, 9.566946
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 25′ 22.69″ N, 9° 34′ 1.01″ E
UTM: 32U 540274 5585814
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: Gothic numbers
Inscription Location: on the basin side
Inscription Text: "1495"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]