Fronhausen / Vronhusen
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Turm der evangelischen Kirche in Fronhausen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hydro, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2016 by Hydro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_Fronhausen_06.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die evangelische Kirche in Fronhausen"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hydro, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 26 May 2016 by Hydro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelische_Kirche_Fronhausen_09.jpg] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "Blick von der Empore in den Innenraum der ev. Kirche Fronhausen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by WolfeTone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EVKFEmporenblick.JPG] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "Das Kirchenschiff der ev. Kirche Fronhausen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by WolfeTone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EVKFSchiff.JPG] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Der alte Taufstein an der Westseite der ev. Kirche Fronhausen"
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Image Source: digital photograph 4 June 2013 by WolfeTone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EVKFTaufstein.JPG] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the font outside the west portal, before it was moved into the new lapidarium built in 2020
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Renate Hildebrandt, 2025
Image Source: digital photograph 20 March 2015 in Renate Hildebrandt's Die Evangelische Kirche Fronhausen [https://www.ev-kirche-fronhausen.de/uploads/PvR8U121/DieEvangelischeKircheFronhausen.pdf] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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view of object
![Source caption: "Träger eines Taufsteins in Fronhausen" [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250119021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Träger eines Taufsteins in Fronhausen" [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 4 August 1874 drawing by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main [https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/traeger-eines-taufsteins-in-fronhausen] [accessed 19 January 2025]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 25803FRO
Object Type: Baptismal Font2 (fragment)
Church/Chapel: Evangelische lutherische Kirche Fronhausen
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Gladenbacher Str. 15, 35112 Fronhausen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 6426 346
Country Name: Germany
Location: Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road L3093, S of the L3048, between Giessen (S) and Marbourg (N)
Font Location in Church: Outside the church, in the lapidarium
Date: n.d.
Century and Period: 12th century (?), Romanesque
Church Notes: 12thC church, first documented 1159; after long periods of dilapidation the church was renovated and re-built in 1764-1801 and 1886-1894; modernised 1920 and 2002
Font Notes:
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The entry for this church in the German Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelische_Kirche_Fronhausen] [accessed 19 January 2025] relates that the font was removed from the church in the reign of Moritz of Hesse-Kassel (1592-1627) but it still stands now in from of the church [cf. infra]. The object appears tub-shaped and devoid of ornament; a large part of one of the basin sides is lacking; in some sources it appears located outside the west entrance to the church, while in others it is referred as being located in the lapidarium [NB: the 11 August 2021 edition of the Oberhessische Presse [https://www.op-marburg.de/lokales/marburg-biedenkopf/fronhausen/lapidarium-fronhausen-steinerne-zeitzeugen-werden-gewuerdigt-TYOK4CBH6JESJ3FILGTQJLB7XI.html] [accessed 19 January 2025] informs that the covered lapidarium was built in 2020 to house and protect several interesting remnants of the old church, among which the old baptismal font -- the construction of the lapidarium and the new location of the font is also noted in Bürger Stiftung Fronhausen [https://www.bürgerstiftung-fronhausen.de/index.php/archiv/26-foerderung-der-aufstellung-historischer-grabdenkmaeler] [accessed 19 January 2025]. An entry in the collections of the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main [https://sammlung.staedelmuseum.de/en/work/traeger-eines-taufsteins-in-fronhausen] [accessed 19 January 2025] shows a drawing by Carl Theodor Reiffenstein of a stone object described as " Träger eines Taufsteins in Fronhausen, August 4, 1874" but, as Pol Herman commented to BSI (e-mail of 11 October 2024) "It is difficult to see a link between the two objects".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.70469, 8.69303
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 42′ 16.88″ N, 8° 41′ 34.91″ E
UTM: 32U 478324 5617031