Kalterherberg
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inscription
Scene Description: partial view
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 May 2022 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Lambertus_(Kalterherberg)_23.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2024]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg) von Nordosten"
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Image Source: digital photograph 6 May 2022 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Lambertus_(Kalterherberg)_80.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg) aus der Vogelperspektive"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolkenkratzer, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2017 by Wolkenkratzer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Lambertus_(Kalterherberg)_007.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2024]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2022
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 6 May 2022 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Lambertus_(Kalterherberg)_23.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2024]
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Lambertus (Kalterherberg), Blick zur rechten Seitenkapelle, Taufkapelle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Hummel, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 6 May 2022 by Thomas Hummel [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Lambertus_(Kalterherberg)_23.jpg] [accessed 18 March 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25385KAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Lambertus in Kalterherberg [aka Eifeldom]
Church Patron Saints: St. Lambert of Maastricht[aka Lambaert, Lambertus, Lambrecht, Landebertus]
Church Location: Arnoldystraße 1, Kalterherberg, 52156 Monschau, Germany -- Tel.: +49 2472 80480
Country Name: Germany
Location: Aachen, Nordhein-Westfalen
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the 399, in the municipality and 3-4 km SSW of Monchau, just E of the border with Belgium
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Aachen
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a S side chapel
Date: 1688
Century and Period: 17th century(late)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful tp Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: original chapel in the Premonstratensian monastery of Reichenstein; became independent parish 1687; enlarged and tower added 1693; present church 1897-1901
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in GPS-Wanderatlas [https://www.ich-geh-wandern.de/kalterherberg] [accessed 18 March 2024] reports a baptismal font of 1688, formerly from the early-16th century Lambertuskapelle ["Der Taufstein stammt von 1688 aus der einstigen Lambertuskapelle, die zu Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts gebaut worden war"] [NB: the original chapel became an independent parish church in 1687, at which time it acquired the right to baptisms and logically a font]. An entry in Dreamstime [https://de.dreamstime.com/schönes-blaues-taufbecken-der-kirche-von-st-lambert-kalterherberg-deutschland-überstieg-durch-statuen-johannes-täufer-und-image130514464] [accessed 18 March 2024] mentions a baptismal font made of blue stone, its cover has the scene of the Baptism of Christ, in this church.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.520726, 6.220863
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 31′ 14.62″ N, 6° 13′ 15.11″ E
UTM: 32U 303002 5600219
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (black and blue) (Tournai marble)
Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin
Inscription Text: "ANNO 1688 [???]"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes & ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: metal
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]