Kahla

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design element - architectural - arch-head - horseshoe
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Stadtkirche St. Margarethen in Kahla."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mfalkah, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph 16 May 2014 by Mfalkah [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_St._Margarethen_Kahla.jpg] [accessed 19 April 2024]
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Stadtkirche von Kahla (Thüringen)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michael Sander, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 10 February 2008 by Michael Sander [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Kahla.JPG] [accessed 19 April 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Stadtkirche Kahla, Blick zum Altarraum" -- showing the font in the chancel right [south] side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mfalkah, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 15 February 2023 by Mfalkah [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stadtkirche_Kahla_Altarraum.jpg] [accessed 19 April 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: the medieval basin on a modern pedestal base; the 'font cover' and the baptismal utensils are 20thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elisabeth Hase, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph by Elisabeth Hase in fotocommunity [https://www.fotocommunity.de/photo/romanischer-taufstein-in-der-margare-elisabeth-hase/28748744] [accessed 19 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25445KAH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Thüringer Museum in Eisenach
Church/Chapel: Stadtkirche St. Margarethen steht in Kahla
Church Patron Saints: St. Margaret of Antioch [aka Margaret the Virgin, Marina]
Church Location: Burg 2, 07768 Kahla, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Saale-Holzland, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located off road 88, S of the Bd4, 13 km S of Jena, about 50 km ESE of Erfurt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side [on loan from the museum]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [basin only], Late Romanesque [altered]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
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: a church may have existed here in the 9thC; a priest is mentioned in a 1225 document; church destroyed by fire 1410; new church built 1411-1495; modified 1791-1793; again 1906; damaged in 1945 WWII; restored 1953-1955
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the Evangelischer Kirchenkreis Eisenberg [https://www.kirchenkreis-eisenberg.de/gemeinden/kahla/stadtkirche-st-margarethen/] [accessed 19 April 2024] informs on its baptismal font as being probably from Scharfenberg Castle near Thal (near Eisenach); the basin is of the 12th century, as suggested by the frieze of horshoe arch-heads, such as those found in the baptismal font in Merenberg in the Westerwald or on the apse of the Frauenberg Church in Nordhausen, both from the 12th century; the font is relatively large and has a drain; the base and the wrought iron cover date from 1955; the baptismal dish and jug are from 1956 ["Der Taufstein stammt wahrscheinlich aus der Burg Scharfenberg bei Thal (bei Eisenach). Der obere Teil ist auf das 12.Jh. zu datieren. Darauf deutet der umlaufende Fries mit aneinandergereihten Hufeisen. Solche Hufeisenfriese sind selten zu finden (z.B. an einem Taufstein in Merenberg im Westerwald oder an der Apsis der Frauenbergkirche in Nordhausen, beide aus dem 12. Jh.). Das Taufbecken ist relativ groß und hat einen Abfluss, da bis zum Spätmittelalter die Kinder bei der Taufe ins Wasser eingetaucht wurden. Der Fuß und die schmiedeeiserne Abdeckung mit verschiedenen Taufsymbolen stammen von 1955, die Taufschale und die Taufkanne von 1956."] The basin is actually polygonal [decagonal? / dodecagonal?] with a rounded underbowl; although eroded and damaged the side panels show carved horseshoe arch-heads on them; some of the damage to the upper rim area appears to be related to the anchorings of a former font cover; the pedestal base is a modern replacement.
The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Margarethen_(Kahla)] [accessed 19 April 2024] notes a baptismal font of the 12th century on loan in this church from the Thüringen museum ["Taufstein aus dem 12. Jahrhundert (Leihgabe des Thüringer Museums in Eisenach)"]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.80449, 11.58947
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 48′ 16.16″ N, 11° 35′ 22.09″ E
UTM: 32U 682452 5631280
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1955
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]