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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4 - one per niche or arch

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New Testament - Public life of Christ - Crucifixion

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New Testament - Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection

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Old Testament - Genesis - Adam and Eve

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design element - patterns - tracery

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Mengerschied, Friedhof, Taufbecken"

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Scene Description: the sides were probably framed in arches but the whole upper area is now missing [cf. FontNotes]

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Scene Description: Source caption: "Mengerschied, Friedhof, Trauerhalle" -- showing the remains of the old font in the porch(?) of the new chapel

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INFORMATION

FontID: 25795MEN
Church/Chapel: Sankt Walburgiskirche, Mengerschied
Church Patron Saints: St. Walburga [aka Walpurgis, Vaubourg]
Church Location: 55490 Mengerschied, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Rhein-Hunsrück, Rheinland-Pfalz
Directions to Site: Located off local road L162, S of highway E42, about 60 km W of Wiesbaden
Font Location in Church: In the modern chapel built on the site
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 15th century (?), 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: church originally of the late 11thC; church converted to parochial in the late-15thC; collapsed/demolished ca. 1750
An article in the regionalgeschichte.net 'Ein spätgotischer Taufstein und die Glocke von 1479 aus der ehemaligen Walburgiskirche auf dem Friedhof in Mengerschied' [https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/hunsrueck/mengerschied/kulturdenkmaeler/taufstein.html] [accessed 18 January 2025] describes the remains of a late-Gothic stone baptismal font from the disappeared Sankt Walburgiskirche of Mengerschied; it mentions that, after the collapse of the church, the baptismal font was left exposed to the elements; the long exposure has eroded most of the carving which covered the sides of the basin; the article refers to a description in the Kunstdenkmälern des Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreises, which noted that the font is made of reddish sandstone, 89 cm in height and with an external diameter of the basin at 102 cm; the sides of the basin are described as having been decorated with scenes that alternate figures seated at writing desks accompanied by their animals [the Four Evangelists] with Adam and Eve, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, and one more panel of which nothing could be identified; the lower base is reported missing. [NB: the article gives the source: Kunstdenkmäler des Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreises, Bd. I, S.649/650].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.914167, 7.511389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 54′ 51″ N, 7° 30′ 41″ E
UTM: 32U 393128 5530150

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

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