Lohr am Main
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rufus46, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2016 by Rufus46 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_St._Michael_Lohr_am_Main-1.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: made of cut branches in the shape of trefoils
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rufus46, 2003
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 August 2016 by Rufus46 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_St._Michael_Lohr_am_Main-1.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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inscription
Scene Description: "1488"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rufus46, 2003
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 17 August 2016 by Rufus46 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_St._Michael_Lohr_am_Main-1.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "St Michael seen from the Bayersturm"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pascal Reusch, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 19 May 2008 by Pascal Reusch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Michael_Lohr_am_Main.JPG] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Innenansicht der Stadtpfarrkirche Sankt Michael Lohr am Main" -- showing the baptismal font in the centre aisle
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zavijava2, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 6 October 2019 by Zavijava2 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Innenansicht_Stadtpfarrkirche_Sankt_Michael_Lohr06102019.png] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lohr am Main: Katholische Pfarrkirche Sankt Michael"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of a 1909-1914 photograph in the Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [Inventarnummer Photothek: ZI-0722-05-1-Th150306] [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/lohr-am-main-katholische-pfarrkirche-sankt-michael/oQEAJlehZe3MMw?hl=de] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirchplatz 2, Lohr am Main; Katholische Stadtpfarrkirche Sankt Michael, Sakristei 12. Jahrhundert, Langhaus 13. Jahrhundert, Chor und Turm zweite Hälfte 15. Jahrhundert, mit Ausstattung."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rufus46, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph 17 August 2016 by Rufus46 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_St._Michael_Lohr_am_Main-1.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2024]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: a partial view of the font in the foregorund
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KaiBorgeest, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph 11 April 2015 by KaiBorgeest [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WP_UF_in_Lohr_StMichael.jpg] [accessed 13 May 2024[
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25494LOH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Stadtpfarrkirche St. Michael in Lohr am Main
Church Patron Saints: St. Michael [formerly St. Martin]
Church Location: Kirchpl. 8, 97816 Lohr am Main, Germany -- Tel.: +49 9352 875060
Country Name: Germany
Location: Main-Spessart, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located off the 26-276 crossroads, on the W bank of the Main river, about 60 km ESE of Frankfurt am Main
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, centre aisle
Date: 1488
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: possible very early [7thC?] wooden chapel here; later a castle chapel that served the surrounding community as a 10th-11thC(?) parish church dedicated to St Martin; modified and expanded 12th and 13th-14thC; again 1488-1500; again 18th and 19thC; several times in the 20thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font bearing the inscribed date '1488' illustrated in a 1909-1914 photograph in the Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [Inventarnummer Photothek: ZI-0722-05-1-Th150306] [https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/lohr-am-main-katholische-pfarrkirche-sankt-michael/oQEAJlehZe3MMw?hl=de] [accessed 13 May 2024].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.9942, 9.57715
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 59′ 39.12″ N, 9° 34′ 37.74″ E
UTM: 32U 541368 5538145
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: inside one of the arches on the basin side
Inscription Text: "1488"
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: metal?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, with three handles; modern