Morshausen / Mörshausen
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2016 by rumabel [https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=11882] [accessed 21 April 2024]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: the font is located in the northeast area of the nave, hidden here by the benches on the left, right beneath the modern (2000) crucifix by Angela Sadra
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2016 by rumabel [https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=11882] [accessed 21 April 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the old tub font after its restoration to the inside of the church in 1992; it had been placed for many years outside the village bakery
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Image Source: digital photograph 9 September 2016 by rumabel [https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=11882] [accessed 21 April 2024]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25450MOR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche Mörshausen
Church Location: Lindenstraße, Mörshausen, 34286 Spangenberg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE area of the nave
Date: [ca. 1100?]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
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 built ca. 1100; much modified since; renovated 1989-1993
Font Notes:
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Ilona Grenzebach's Die Kirchengemeinde in Mörshausen [http://www.moershausen.de/chronik/Kirchengemeinde.pdf] [accessed 21 April 2024] informs that the baptismal font had been removed from the old church and stood outside the village bakery for many years; it was returned to the church when the building was restored in 1989-1993. Noted and illustrated in rumabel [https://www.kirchen-galerie.de/de/?m=kirche&p=11882] [accessed 21 April 2024]: the reoughly cylindrical base of reddish stone is devoid of decoration but for a broad moulding at the upper rim. No cover present.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.112866, 9.605731
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51°06'46.3"N, 9°36'20.6"E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round