You cut off parts of the DOI, complete: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
In Mannheim gibts die Haltestelle "Marchivum"
PD Ulrich Blanché, Kunstgeschichte Uni Heidelberg, (hab da studiert)
doi.org/10.11588/art...
Grafik aus der verlinkten Alkensbachstudie, die zeigt, dass alle Altersgruppen in D einen Rückgang der Buchlektüre verzeichnen
Ist in allen Altersgruppen so... www.ifd-allensbach.de/fileadmin/AW...
4 Fotos of the baptismal font in St. Stephan in Bamberg. Different angles of Baby Jesus on top of a big bronze orb.
If you see the whole thing, it gets creepier.
Fotos out of: B. Schulin, Taufbecken in Deutschland. Form und Ikonographie (2021) doi.org/10.11588/art...
translated from the churches website:
"The child's left hand wears an adult hand, as if it were a glove. This hand points with an overly long finger to the cross on the altar or, in extension, to the lectern from which the Bible is read during the service."
And the Artist www.juergen-goertz.info
So the Charlemagne story is probably out of Anselmus de Boodt, Gemmarum et lapidum historica (1609) ( the Pliny story I knew myself, this is german wikipedia)
It's in Plinys Naturalismus historia 19.4
"There has been invented also a kind of linen which is incombustible by flame ... napkins that were made of it thrown into a blazing fire, ... by the Greeks it is called " asbestinon"
Bookcover: Märchen aus Nepal, collected and translated by Günther Unbescheid, ©Diederichs Verlag 1987
Publisher at least till 1987. This collection of Nepali fairy tales was edited by my Moms former neighbor in 1980s Heidelberg
Looks like ITC Serif Gothic ( in Heavy or Black)
In der Pressemitteilung der Stadt ist eine deutsche Übersetzung der Inschrift. frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuel...