Trommetsheim No. 1 / Trutmundesheim

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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: a large leaf in each arch of the arcade

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Trommetsheim, Gemeinde Alesheim im Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen (Bayern), evang.-luth. Pfarrkirche St. Emmeram, gotischer Taufstein"

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view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Trommetsheim, Gemeinde Alesheim im Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen (Bayern), evang.-luth. Pfarrkirche St. Emmeram, Kircheninneres gegen Osten} -- showing both fonts in the context of the church interior

INFORMATION

FontID: 25789TRO
Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Pfarrkirche St. Emmeram
Church Patron Saints: St. Emmeram of Regensburg [aka Emeran / Emmerammus / Emmeramus / Haimeran / Heimeran / Heimrammi]
Church Location: Kirchestrasse, Trommetsheim, 91793 Alesheim, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Mittelfranken, Bayern
Directions to Site: Located of the road 2230, in the municipality and about 2 km S of Alesheim, 8-9 km W of Weissenburg in Bayern
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, SE corner, beneath the pulpit
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century (?), Late Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention
The German Wikipedia entry for Trommetsheim [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Emmeram_(Trommetsheim)] [accessed 13 January 2025] notes and illustrates two baptismal fonts in its church; this one is described as a sandstone basin of cylindrical shape, the sides decorated with an arcade of trefoiled arches containing large leaf motifs in each; it appears to have no base now and rests directly on the ground beneath the pulpit.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.027567, 10.86429
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 1′ 39.24″ N, 10° 51′ 51.44″ E
UTM: 32U 636280 5432195

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone
Font Shape: cylindrical
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round