Herbstein

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - wearing pilgrim garb

Scene Description: on the left the angel holding Christ garments, part of the scene of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - angel holding clothes

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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inscription

Scene Description: "AB" on the left column, for Andreas Huber [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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inscription - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Herbstein, Kirchplatz, Kath. Kirche St. Jakobus"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 October 2016 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein,_Kirchplatz,_Kath._Kirche_St._Jakobus-20161020-003.jpg] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Herbstein, Kirchplatz, Kath. Kirche St. Jakobus, Innenraum"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 October 2016 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein,_Kirchplatz,_Kath._Kirche_St._Jakobus-20161020-002.jpg] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Catholic Church (St. Jakobus/James the Great) (detail) in Herbstein, Herbstein, Hessen, Germany"

Image Source: digital photograph 3 October 2014 by UuMUfQ [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Herbstein_Herbstein_Catholic_Church_Baptismal_Font_i.png] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Der schöne Taufstein der spätgotischen Kirche St. Jakobus stammt aus der späten Renaissance (von 1580). Er wurde als Werk des Kasseler Bildhauers Andreas Huber erschaffen."

Image Source: digital photograph in Hotel-Zentrale.de [https://www.hotel-zentrale.de/fotos/494-Herbstein/3841-Taufstein-Kirche-St-JakobusJPG] [accessed 12 November 2023]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25057HER

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Jakobus und Johannes der Täufer

Church Patron Saints: St. James & St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Kirchpl. 4, 36358 Herbstein, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6643 234

Country Name: Germany

Location: Vogelsberg, Hesse

Directions to Site: Located off the Bd275 [aka Hessenstr.], about 25 km W of Fulda

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1580

Century and Period: 16th century(late), Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Andreas Huber

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: late-14thC church; modified 1682, 1727 and 1959-1960

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Hotel-Zentrale.de [https://www.hotel-zentrale.de/fotos/494-Herbstein/3841-Taufstein-Kirche-St-JakobusJPG] [accessed 12 November 2023]: "Der schöne Taufstein der spätgotischen Kirche St. Jakobus stammt aus der späten Renaissance (von 1580). Er wurde als Werk des Kasseler Bildhauers Andreas Huber erschaffen." Beaker-shaped baptismal font of stone consisting of a round basin bearing a Latin inscription all around below the rim; on the sides is a scene of the Baptism of Christ, the Apostle James the Greater in pilgrim garb between two columns, one of which has a cluster of the letters AB, for the artist Andreas Hubert, the Kassel artist who made the font, large foliage motifs, etc.; raised on a round to square base with foliage decoration below a large roll moulding. Low dome metal cover locked to anchorings on the upper rim.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.562395, 9.346588

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 33′ 44.62″ N, 9° 20′ 47.72″ E

UTM: 32U 524548 5601221

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: the date 1580 may be part of it [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on the basin, below the upper rim

Inscription Text: 1) "[...] DE COELIS DICENS - HIC EST FILIVS [...]" 2) "AB" [for Andreas Huber]

Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]