Dietingen / Dietingen-Blaustein
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Christ - head
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animal - mammal - deer or gazelle - passant
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design element - motifs - foliage
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a massive polygonal moulding on the round stem
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inscription
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symbol - heart
Scene Description: several as tracery extensions of the upper shapes
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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view of font
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view of font and context
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25518DIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Martin
Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours
Church Location: Neideggweg, Dietingen, 89134 Blaustein, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg
Directions to Site: Located 4 km SW of Blaustein, about 10 km W of Ulm, about 100 km SW of Stuttgart
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Konstanz
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the NE area of the nave
Date: 1426
Century and Period: 15th century (early), 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: original church may have been a wooden building from the 7th/8thC; a later stone Romanesque was church modified 13th and 15thC, but early tower retained and extended; renovated 1881; renovated 1983-1985
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in Seelsorgeeinheit Blautal [https://se-blautal.drs.de/st-martinus-dietingen-markbronn/historie.html] [accessed 24 May 2024] describes an impressive dodecagonal baptismal font of 1426, decorated with, among others, Christ's head, animals [deer?]. foliage and an inscription with the name of Ulricus Binder, a 15th-century Württemberg feudal lord(?) of Dietingen and Markbronn ["Eindrucksvoll stellt sich der Taufstein dar, der auf 1426 datiert wird. Er hat die Form eines zwölfeckigen Kelchs, verziert mit Christuskopf, Hirschen und Blattwerk. Er trägt den Namen des Stifters (?) Ulricus Binder, eines im 15. Jahrhundert wiederholt urkundlich bezeugten württembergischen Lehensmanns in Dietingen und Markbronn"].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.3977, 9.8596
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 23′ 51.72″ N, 9° 51′ 34.56″ E
UTM: 32U 563628 5360861
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal
Diameter (includes rim): 69 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 96 cm
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German and Latin?
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the basin sides
Inscription Text: [name of Ulricus Binder and year 1426]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]