Mainz No. 4 / Maguntia / Mayence

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Scene Description: the museum label for the font originally from Bodenheim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

symbol - cross - processional cross

Scene Description: one of two visible in the source photographs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

symbol - cross - processional cross

Scene Description: one of two visible in the source photographs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

symbol - crozier

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

view of basin

Scene Description: [original source unknown]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital scan [source unknown] by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

view of basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

view of basin in context

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph by the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Copyright Instructions: Image received via Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023)

view of basin in context

Scene Description: the fragment of a baptismal font from the Augustinian Church in Dordrecht, before (left) and after (right) its restoration to the interior -- notice the similarity if the design of the basin sides with the font from Bodenheim [cf. FontNotes]
Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Seitenansicht der Sankt-Alban-Kirche von Bodenheim in Rheinhessen" -- the present church is 19thC, the third re-builng of the original 12thC church of Bodenheim; it houses a replica of the font that is located now at the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Stefan Frerichs, 2017
Image Source: edited detail of a 12 March digital photograph by Stefan Frerichs [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt-Alban-Kirche_Seitenansicht_Bodenheim.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE

view of font

Scene Description: The caption gives the date ca. 1000 [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © A. Schuchert, 1960
Image Source: digital image of a drawing from Schuchert (1960) reproduced in Kuiken (2004)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vom Regenwasser und Taufe. Unscheinbar stand er jahrelang in einem privaten Garten und diente als Auffangbecken für Regenwasser. Heute gilt er als eines der Prunkstücke im Bodenheimer Museum: der Taufstein, der mit seinen über 1200 Jahren zu den ältesten in ganz Deutschland zählt."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bodenheimer Heimatmuseum, 2023
Image Source: digital image of an undated photograph [source N/A] Bodenheimer Heimatmuseum [https://www.vg-bodenheim.de/wohnen-leben/kultur-freizeit/theater-museen/bodenheimer-heimatmuseum/] [accessed 16 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font shown here in the context of the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz may be the fragment of a Gothic font originally from Bodenheim St. Alban [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph in the Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz [https://www.museumspass.com/en/museum/bischofliches-dom-und-diozesanmuseum] [accessed 16 December 2023]
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the restored baptismal font in the Reformed Church at Haamstede -- notice the similarity if the design of the basin sides with the font from Bodenheim [cf. FontNotes]
Image Source: digital photograph [source unknown] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 25169MAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Museum and Inventory Number: Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz / Lapidarium des Dommuseums zu Mainz
Church/Chapel: Dom- und Diözesanmuseum Mainz
Church Location: [address & coordinates are for the Mainz Dom] Markt 10, 55116 Mainz, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6131 253412
Country Name: Germany
Location: Mainz-Bingen, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: The Dom is located near the market, in the old city centre, W of the L431 [aka Rheinstrasse], on the W bank of the Rhein river, 25-30 km WSW of Frankfurt-am-Main
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Mainz
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Date: ca. 1120-1150?
Century and Period: 12th century [fragment], Romanesque [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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: two previous buildings (12th and 17thC) preceded the present 19thC church in Bodenheim -- the patron saint of the church is and was St. Alban of Mainz
Font Notes:
The article 'Vom Regenwasser und Taufe' in the Bodenheimer Heimatmuseum [https://www.vg-bodenheim.de/wohnen-leben/kultur-freizeit/theater-museen/bodenheimer-heimatmuseum/] [accessed 16 December 2023] informs of and illustrates an old stone font that served for years in a private garden as a catch basin for rainwater, but is now one of the showpieces in the Bodenheim Museum. The entry for the Bodenheimer Heimatmuseum e.V in Kulturbox.de [https://www.kulturbox.de/museen/bodenheim/?vo_id=_09H16BZ2C] [accessed 16 December 2023] gives a slightly different description of the font, as a font from the 11th century, which a club member found in a front garden where it was used as a bird bath. It bears witness to the relationships with the knightly monastery of St. Alban in Mainz ["das Taufbecken aus dem 11. Jahrhundert, das ein Vereinsmitglied in einem Vorgarten gefunden hat, wo es als Vogeltränke genutzt wurde. Es zeugt von den Beziehungen zum Ritterstift St. Alban in Mainz"]. A communication to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 27 March 2023) informs of this font: "I receive the following pictures of the font of the Heimatsmuseum at Bodenheim. Today this font is at the Dom-und Diözianmuseum in Mainz, and only a copy remains in Bodenheim [...] This font was described in : Der hochmittelalterliche Taufstein aus Bodenheim im Lapidarium des Dommuseums zu Mainz und der Sarkophag aus dem Kloster Hagen bei Lorsch. Azzola, Friedrich Karl. (1999) - In: Mainzer Zeitschrift Bd. 90/91 (1995/96) S. 1-4. To me, it looks like belonging to the same family of fonts as Haamstede and Dordrecht. This obvious link between them would be the Rhine as means of transport. The commentary source: "The commentary was : Wie versprochen sende ich Ihnen die Fotos des Bodenheimer Taufsteins aus dem 11.Jahrhundert mit Begleittext was uns darüber bekannt ist. Eine aus der Kirche zu Bodenheim stammenden romanischer Taufstein (Taufbecken) des 11.Jahrhunderts, der sich heute im Orginal im Dom- und Diözesanmuseum in Mainz befindet ist ein in Stein gehauenes Zeugnis für das hohe Alter einer Kirche in Bodenheim. Ein Mitglied des Bodenheimer Heimatmuseums entdeckte den Taufstein in einem Bodenheimer Garten 1952.Der Taufstein diente als Vogeltränke. Eine Replik befindet sich im Bodenheimer Heimatmuseum." In Kuiken (2004) after Schuchert (1960). Kuiken (ibid.) notes that the Museum acquired the font in 1952. The fragment of the old font shows [several?] buttress-like piping on the outside but, curiously, it has several symbols carved on the inner basin sides: at least two processional crosses and one abbot's crozier; the latter may be related to St. Alban's at Bodenheim [NB: a number of images were sent by the Museum to Pol Herman, who forwarded them to BSI [cf. ImagesArea]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.998889, 8.273889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 59′ 56″ N, 8° 16′ 26″ E
UTM: 32U 447961 5538760

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone (Flonheim)
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Azzola, Friedrich Karl, "Der hochmittelalterliche Taufstein aus Bodenheim im Lapidarium des Dommuseums zu Mainz und der Sarkophag aus dem Kloster Hagen bei Lorsch", 90/91 (1995/1996), Mainzer Zeitschrift. Mittelrheinisches Jahrbuch für Archäologie, Kunst und Geschichte, 1996, pp. 1-4; S. 1-4
Kuiken, Kees, "Middeleeuwse zandstenen grafkisten in Groningen", 21, Groninger kerken, 2004, pp. 4-15; p. 4-15
Schuchert, August, "Taufe und Taufstein. Zur Neuerwerbung eines romanischen Taufsteins für das Mainzer Dom- und Diözesanmuseum", Universitas. Dienst an Wahrheit und Leben. Festschrift für Bischof Dr. Albert Stohr, 1960