Neuerburg

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view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Neuerburg church"
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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - south view - detail

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view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus Neuerburg. Ansicht von der alten Stadtmauer aus"
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Neuerburg, St. Nikolaus [...] Blick zum Chor"
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view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken des Mittelalters in St. Nikolaus (Neuerburg), Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland"
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INFORMATION

FontID: 25570NEU
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St . Nikolaus Neuerburg
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Burgstraße, 54673 Neuerburg, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off local road K50, 23-24 km WNW of Bitburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 16th century, 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: late-11thC church first documented in 1341; re-building started 1492 and completed 1570; expanded 1912/1913; renovated 1976-1984
Font Notes:
Baptismal font of the late-Gothic period listed in Glesius (2013). The entry for this church in Ernst Wackenroder's Pfarrkirche St. Nikolaus (2024) [https://www.neuerburg-eifel.de/index.php/stadt-neuerburg/pfarrkirche-st-nikolaus] [accessed 21 June 2024] mentions a baptismal font ca. 1500 located on the east side of the nave ["Ebenfalls aus dieser Zeit stammt wohl auch der Taufstein. Aus der Zeit um 1500 stammt die spätgotische Holzfigur eines thronenden hl. Nikolaus, welche sich heute an der linken Ostwand des Schiffes über dem Taufstein befindet."]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.010849, 6.293165
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 0′ 39.05″ N, 6° 17′ 35.39″ E
UTM: 32U 306065 5543348

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Glesius, Angelika, "Spätgotischer Kirchenbau im alten Erzbistum Trier", 2013