Ospern / Osper
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Osper, d'Dekanatskierch / Ospern, Église"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Claude Schomer, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 10 September 2011 by Claude Schomer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ospern,_Église.jpg] [accessed 21 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-LU
inscription
Scene Description: on the front side of the basin, with the date 1417
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of font and cover in context
Image Source: digital photograph [source N/A] provided by Pol Herman
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 25571OSP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1417
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (early?), Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St . Remigius, Ospern / Kathoulesch Kierch hl. Remigius vun Osper
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Address: Rue Principale 9, 8540 Ospern Redange, Luxembourg
Site Location: Redange, Luxembourg, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road N23 [aka rue Principale], in the municipality nad 4 km NE of Redange-sur-Attert, about 35 km NNW of Luxembourg city
Font Notes:
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Late-Gothic baptismal font listed in Glesius (2013) as a font bearing the inscribed date 1417. Tessy Glodt's Kierchtuermspromenaden: En Tour duerch d 'Lëtzebuerger Land (16 June 2013) [https://www.tessyglodt.lu/page/ospern] [accessed 21 June 2024] mentions a baptismal font of 1417 in the baptistery chapel of this church ["den Dafsteen vu 1417 sinn och aus deem eeleren Deel, der haiteger Dafkapell"]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
COORDINATES
UTM: 31U 709510 5518287
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 49.78047, 5.91036
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 49° 46′ 49.69″ N, 5° 54′ 37.3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: numbers
Inscription Location: on a side of the basin
Inscription Text: [1417]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain' appears modern
REFERENCES
- Glesius, Angelika, "Spätgotischer Kirchenbau im alten Erzbistum Trier", 2013, Katalog, p. 251