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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: in one of the hexagonal panels

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

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

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

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

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

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

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]

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"

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."

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)"

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"

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein / Taufbecken der Kirche Flieden."

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)"

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

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: Click to view font notes

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]