Jena No. 2

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design element - motifs - piping

Scene Description: at the angles of the eight faces of the octagonal basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena_St._Johannes_Baptist_Taufbecken_763.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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design element - motifs - saw-tooth

Scene Description: three points between the vertical piping dividers
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena_St._Johannes_Baptist_Taufbecken_763.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist in Jena (Thüringen/Deutschland), Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena_St._Johannes_Baptist_Taufbecken_764.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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view of basin and cover - west side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein in St. Johannes Baptist, Jena, Deutschland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jac. Janssen, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2009 by Jac. Janssen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20090824_Vacantie_0267_Jena.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view - detail

Scene Description: Source caption; "Jena-28-Wagnergasse-St Johannies Baptist"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerd Eichmann, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 20 February 2023 by Gerd Eichmann l] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist in Jena (Thüringen/Deutschland), Innenraum" -- showing the font and cover in the northeast corner of the nave, just west of the chancel arch north pillar
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena_St._Johannes_Baptist_Innenraum_779.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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view of font - upper view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist in Jena (Thüringen/Deutschland), Taufbecken"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 28 April 2022 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena_St._Johannes_Baptist_Taufbecken_765.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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view of font and cover in context - southwest side

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufstein in St. Johannes Baptist, Jena, Deutschland"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jac. Janssen, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 24 August 2009 by Jac. Janssen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20090824_Vacantie_0268_Jena.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 25689JEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Pfarrkirche St. Johannes Baptist in Jena
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Wagnergasse 34, 07743 Jena, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Gera, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Jena is located off the crossroads 7 and 88, 435-40 W of Gera, about the same distance E of Erfurt
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Erfurt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, NE corner [cf. FontNotes]
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque
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 Romanesque church; modified 13thC; expanded and modernised 1903; expanded and renovated 1960; the font moved to its present location ca. 2000
Font Notes:
Baptismal font consisring of an octagonal basin decorated with crudely-executed saw-tooth patterns between vertical pipes at the angles; plain underbowl; on an octagonal pedestal and lower base, both plain. The metal font cover in place is domed, and appears to be made of copper; large dove finial.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.930177, 11.582357
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 48.64″ N, 11° 34′ 56.48″ E
UTM: 32U 681462 5645236

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: domed, with ribs; dove finial