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![[cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0240101028_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital image of content in Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsvereins 42 (1921): 344
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Laurentius (Laurensberg) von Südosten"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Laurentius_(Laurensberg)_04.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
![Source caption: "St. Laurentius (Laurensberg), Innenraum" -- the late-Baroque baptismal font is discernible at the far [east] end of the left [north] aisle](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240101026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Laurentius (Laurensberg), Innenraum" -- the late-Baroque baptismal font is discernible at the far [east] end of the left [north] aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Laurentius_(Laurensberg)_18.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Laurentius (Laurensberg), linkes Seitenschiff mit Statue St. Laurentius und einem spätbarocken Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 April 2021 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Laurentius_(Laurensberg)_26.jpg] [accessed 1 January 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 25232LAU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Pfarrkirche St. Laurentius in Laurensberg
Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Location: Laurentiusstraße, 52072 Aachen, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aachen, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the Bd4, about 5 km NNW of Aachen city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type?
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help documenting it
Font Notes:
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The present baptismal font in this church is described as late-Baroque [ImagesArea].
A communicaton to BSI from Pol Herman (e-mail of 25 May 2023) includes a reference to a brief note by Joseph Buchkremer [1864-1949, architect and Domeister at Aachen] in Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsvereins 42 (1921): 344, with reference to an earlier entry in ZAGV 39, p. 248, in which he mentions seven fragments found of a Mosan-type Romanesque font in Laurensberg. Reference to Buchkremer and the seven fragments is also made in Dietmar Kottmann's Der Laurensberger Kirchberg [https://extempore.org/wp-content/uploads/Kirchberg-Laurensberg.pdf] [accessed 1 January 2024], when Kottmann compares those fragments of a Romanesque font to other fonts in the Lower Rhine area, for instance namely the font at Aachen Minster and the one at Lüftelberg.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.8019, 6.05338
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 6.84″ N, 6° 3′ 12.17″ E
UTM: 32U 292376 5631935
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Font Shape: [fragment]