Trippstadt No. 2

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design element - patterns - tracery

Scene Description: mixed reacery patterns on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph by Tourist Info Trippstadt, in Trippstadt Luftkurort [https://www.trippstadt.de/entdecken/katholische-kirche-st-josef.html] [accessed 7 February 2024]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kreuz hinter Hauptstraße 24 Trippstadt neben der katholischen Kirche"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 13 September 2015 by Thomas Rheinheimer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kreuz_von_1863_-_hinter_Hauptstraße_24_(2015).JPG] [accessed 7 February 2024]

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view of font and cover in context - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ein Taufstein aus der Zeit um 1500, er stammt aus der Mutterkirche St.Blasius zu Aschbach, ist ein wertvoller Besitz der katholischen Kirchengemeinde. Er kam 1845 nach Trippstadt wo er bis 1993 im Pfarrgarten stand. Heute hat der Taufstein einen Ehrenplatz im hinteren Bereich der Kirche."

Image Source: digital photograph by Tourist Info Trippstadt, in Trippstadt Luftkurort [https://www.trippstadt.de/entdecken/katholische-kirche-st-josef.html] [accessed 7 February 2024]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: the font in the parish garden, probably after 1845 -- the brick base would eventually be replaced by a much shorter one made of stone probably around the time when the font was installed in St. Josef's parish church in 1993

Image Source: digital image of an undated sepia photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman

Copyright Instructions: Assumed PD

INFORMATION

FontID: 25316TRI

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Josef

Church Location: Hauptstraße 22, 67705 Trippstadt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6306 341

Country Name: Germany

Location: Kaiserslauten, Rheinland-Pfalz

Directions to Site: Located off (E) local road L500, about 10 km S of Kaiserlautern and the Bd6

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the SW corner of the nave

Date: ca. 1500? [basin only]

Century and Period: 15th - 16th 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: church consecrated 1754;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baptismal font in this church is noted and illustrated in Trippstadt Luftkurort [https://www.trippstadt.de/entdecken/katholische-kirche-st-josef.html] [accessed 7 February 2024] as a stone font from ca. 1500 that was brought to Trippstadt from St. Blasius in Aschbach in 1845; it stood in the parish garden here until 1993 when it brought into the church, at the back ["Ein Taufstein aus der Zeit um 1500, er stammt aus der Mutterkirche St.Blasius zu Aschbach, ist ein wertvoller Besitz der katholischen Kirchengemeinde. Er kam 1845 nach Trippstadt wo er bis 1993 im Pfarrgarten stand. Heute hat der Taufstein einen Ehrenplatz im hinteren Bereich der Kirche"]. The entry for this church in the Pfarrei Maria Schutz, Kaiserlautern [https://www.kirchen-in-kl.de/kirchen/katholische-pfarreien/pfarrei-maria-schutz/wir/gemeinden/st-josef-trippstadt-1-1-1/] [accessed 7 Fabruary 2024], howver, writes about the font being 'returned' to Trippstadt in 1993 ["Als Relikt aus der alten Kirche existiert noch ein Taufstein, der 1993 wieder in der Pfarrkirche in Trippstadt aufgestellt wurde und so wieder seine Funktion als Taufstein erhalten hat."] The font consists of an octagonal basin of stone [sandstone?], the sides of which are decorated with Gothic tracery patterns, and a modern replacement base. The font cover is also modern.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Date: 20th century (late?)

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

Notes: modern