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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: an artist's rendition of the 2026 scheduled demolition of the Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Heilig-Kreuz in Keyenberg

Image Source: digital image of a Drawing by W. Borgs in the 7 January 2021 edition of the Rheinische Post [https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/erkelenz/warum-die-keyenberger-kirche-einzigartig-ist_aid-55542091] [accessed 28 Jauary 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Heilig Kreuz, Keyenberg, Erkelenz, Deutschland" -- deconsecrated November 2021; scheduled for demolition in 2026

Image Source: digital photograoh 27 October 2018 by Arne Müseler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig_Kreuz_Keyenberg.jpg] [accessed 28 January 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche Heilig Kreuz, Keyenberg, Erkelenz, Deutschland" -- deconsecrated November 2021; scheduled for demolition in 2026

Image Source: digital photograoh 27 October 2018 by Arne Müseler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heilig_Kreuz_Keyenberg_innen.jpg] [accessed 28 January 2024]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: Source caption: "The wooden cover was made 1913 by Peter Tillmanns, Erkelenz. It is located at baptistmal chapel inside St. Kreuz church in Keyenberg near Erkelenz. The church is subject to be destroyed in about ten years." -- 3D model of the font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a 3D model by Frank Maraite [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/baptistmal-font-keyenberg-3e6669640bc34b30a4b075fdbdde1814?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campaign=share-popup] [accessed 28 January 2024]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph 2017 by Wolfgang Lothmann, in Virtuelles Museum [https://www.virtuelles-museum.com/objekt/die-einrichtung-von-heilig-kreuz-keyenberg/] [accessed 28 January 2024]

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: seen here in the baptismal chapel in 1960

Image Source: digital image of a 1960 B&W photograph by Hans Walter Corsten, in Virtuelles Museum [https://www.virtuelles-museum.com/objekt/die-einrichtung-von-heilig-kreuz-keyenberg/] [accessed 28 January 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25293KEY

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche Heilig-Kreuz in Keyenberg

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross

Church Location: An St. Kreuz 8, Keyenberg, 41812 Erkelenz, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Heinsberg, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located off the L354, in the municipality and 6-7 km ENE of Erkelenz, about 25 km SW of Düsseldorf

Ecclesiastic Region: [Bistum Aachen]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptismal chapel [cf. FontNotes]

Date: n.d.

Century and Period: 15th century [basin only], Late Gothic [altered]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it

Church Notes: an 8thC church here belongs in the realm of legend; scientific tests give earliest date of 1089-1099; modified 13th, 15th, 16th and 18thC; re-built mid-19th-29thC with partial demolition of remaining Romanesque sections of the old church; damaged in WWII and repaired thereafter; renovated 1980s; scheduled for demolition in 2016; reprieved as listed monument: "Denkmalschutz Das Objekt „Katholische Pfarrkirche Heilig-Kreuz“ ist ein eingetragenes Baudenkmal (LVR-Amt für Denkmalpflege im Rheinland, Datenbank-Nr. 48297 / Denkmalliste der Stadt Erkelenz, laufende Nr. A 178)." Deconsecrated in November 2021

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Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Virtuelles Museum [https://www.virtuelles-museum.com/objekt/die-einrichtung-von-heilig-kreuz-keyenberg/] [accessed 28 Jamuary 2024] as a baptismal font of which the octagonal basin was made of bluestone in the 15th century but has a lining made of copper alloy dated 1733; whereas the base is a modern granite replacement. also octagonal; the font cover ws probably made by Peter Tillmanns, of Erkelenz, in 1915 ["Das achteckige Taufbecken aus Blaustein entstand im 15. Jahrhundert. Der Fuß und der Schaft wurden in der Neuzeit aus grau gesprenkeltem Granit renoviert. Das Becken ist innen mit einem dünnen, kupferlegierten Blech ausgelegt. Wie ein Stempel am Rand zeigt, stammt es aus dem Jahre 1733. 1915 wurde der Eichenholzdeckel gefertigt, wahrscheinlich von Peter Tillmanns aus Erkelenz"]. The same source [cf. supra] has the additional text: "Das Taufbecken erscheint als wuchtige, achteckige, gotische Kelchform und steht mitten in der Taufkapelle. Taufstein und Fuß sind etwa einen Meter hoch, das Becken besitzt einen Durchmesser von 66 cm und eine Tiefe von 50 cm. Der ebenfalls achteckige Holzdeckel weist eine Höhe von 74 cm auf. Er wird bekrönt durch eine vollplastische Halbfigur des Johannes des Täufers in einer Gloriole. Der Deckel weist sowohl neugotische als auch Jugendstil-Elemente auf"] [NB: not clear whether the text is linked to the description in a 3D model by Frank Maraite [https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/baptistmal-font-keyenberg-3e6669640bc34b30a4b075fdbdde1814?utm_medium=embed&utm_source=website&utm_campaign=share-popup] [accessed 28 January 2024] [NB: according to mR (moderne Regional) edition of 19 October 2022 [https://www.moderne-regional.de/listing/erkelenz-keyenberg-hl-kreuz/] [accessed 28 January 2024] the church was deconsacrated in 2021 and is scheduled for demolition in 2026 ["Erkelenz-Keyenberg, Hl. Kreuz. 2021 profaniert, Abriss geplant für 2026 für Braunkohletagesbau Garzweiler"]. [NB: presumably the baptismal font will be/has been moved to the new Kapelle von Keyenberg that replaces the old church scheduled for demolition].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.08388, 6.41261

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 5′ 1.96″ N, 6° 24′ 45.4″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 66 cm*

Basin Total Height: 50 cm*

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1913

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: 74 cm tall, including Baptism of Christ finial; made in 1915 by Peter Tillmanns, Erkelenz