Rostock No. 1 / Roztoc / Roztok

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B1R01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Scene Description: the Child with a cruciferous halo

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R02: Apostle or saint - St. Dorothea of Caesarea - with Christ Child holding basket

Scene Description: the Child wears a cruciferous halo and carries a basket [is this from the Golden Legend's life of St. Dorothy?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R02: Apostle or saint - St. Dorothea of Caesarea - with Christ Child holding basket

Scene Description: the Child wears a cruciferous halo and carries a basket [is this from the Golden Legend's life of St. Dorothy?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R03: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R03: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R03: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness - detail

Scene Description: over two arches: the naked, horned, tailed and winged devil in the left arch holds an inscribed banner and points to the stones

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Betrayal of Judas

Scene Description: Judas Iscariot receives the bag with thirty pieces of silver from the chief priest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Betrayal of Judas - detail

Scene Description: Judas Iscariot receives the bag with thirty pieces of silver from the chief priest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - kiss of Judas and arrest of Christ

Scene Description: the two events are conflated here as an armed man places his hand on Christ shoulder while Judas kisses him

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R05: New Testament - Passion of Christ - kiss of Judas and arrest of Christ - detail

Scene Description: the two events are conflated here as an armed man places his hand on Christ shoulder while Judas kisses him

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R06: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Pontius Pilate washing his hands

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R06: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Pontius Pilate washing his hands - detail

Scene Description: with two servants in attendance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation

Scene Description: contained in three arches, a torturer on each side of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation - detail

Christ, naked from the waist up, is tied to a pole; the bearded man, one of two torturers, delivers the flogging with a broad smile on his face

Scene Description: Christ, naked from the waist up, is tied to a pole; the bearded man, one of two torturers, delivers the flogging with a broad smile on his face

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

Scene Description: in the context of the Flagellation (left) and the Resurrection (right) scenes

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R09: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - with cross and banner - soldiers sleep

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R09: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - with cross and banner - soldiers sleep - detail

Scene Description: beautifully rendered medieval armour on the sleeping soldiers -- notice the flaw in the metal (upper right-hand corner)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R10: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene?

Scene Description: John 20:11-18

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R10: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene? - detail

Scene Description: is that a shovel in Christ's hand? Mary mistook Christ for a gardener, according to John 20:11-18

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B1R10: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene? - detail

Scene Description: a shovel in his hand?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left - Holy Spirit

Scene Description: each figure inside an arch; the dove is directly above Mary's head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - Joseph sitting in a chair - with staff - wearing Jew hat

star above the anomal heads and the manger; Mary, haloed, in bed, and Child, in the manger, not very prominent in contrast with the much larger haloed image of Joseph, seated in a throne-like chair, that dominates the scene

Scene Description: star above the anomal heads and the manger; Mary, haloed, in bed, and Child, in the manger, not very prominent in contrast with the much larger haloed image of Joseph, seated in a throne-like chair, that dominates the scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Adoration of the Christ-child by the shepherds

Scene Description: in the two arches on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Scene Description: in the two arches on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt

Scene Description: in the two central arches; a large tree frames Mary and the Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: shown here over four arches on the lower register of the basin

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 July 2009 by Arnoldius [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Germany_Rostock_St_Mary_baptismal_font.jpg&filetimestamp=20100117193857] [accessed 30 March 2010]

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B2R07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Virgin Mary with Child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Virgin Mary with Child - detail

Scene Description: a star above Mary's head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Virgin Mary with Child - detail

Scene Description: Mary's winged-like head-dress -- notice the pin-hole decoration which evidences the shape of the square tool used to make it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

B2R08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

Scene Description: in the two centre arches; Simeon is haloed as well, as corresponds his category of saint of the Church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LBF01: symbol - the four elements, and ether, the fifth element - earth (one of the four elements)

Lisch (1868): "These might have been to represent the four rivers of Paradise, as in [...] Hildesheim, were we not informed by the inscription on the amphorae in sunken capital letters [...] that the founder intended to typify the four elements which were probably netter known to him".

Scene Description: Lisch (1868): "These might have been to represent the four rivers of Paradise, as in [...] Hildesheim, were we not informed by the inscription on the amphorae in sunken capital letters [...] that the founder intended to typify the four elements which were probably netter known to him".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LBF02: symbol - the four elements, and ether, the fifth element - water (one of the four elements)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LBF03: symbol - the four elements, and ether, the fifth element - air (one of the four elements)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LBF04: symbol - the four elements, and ether, the fifth element - fire (one of the four elements)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension

LID01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID01: animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

LID02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes - angel holding book and candle

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover -- John's left foot has been lost

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID02: animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID03: Apostle or saint - saints - female - crowned - 3

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover -- all haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID03: animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID03: inscription

LID04: Apostle or saint - saints - female - 3

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover -- all three haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID04: animal - mammal - lion - head

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID05: cleric - bishop - standing - wearing mitre - holding book - 3

on the lower level of the font cover -- the figure in th centre, raised higher than the other two, is identified in Lisch (1868) as a Pope; all three haloed

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover -- the figure in th centre, raised higher than the other two, is identified in Lisch (1868) as a Pope; all three haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID06: Apostle or saint - saints - 3

on the lower level of the font cover -- identified in Lisch (1868) as: "Three saints, a bishop, a deacon, and a female saint" -- all three haloed

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover -- identified in Lisch (1868) as: "Three saints, a bishop, a deacon, and a female saint" -- all three haloed

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID07: Christ - standing - holding scroll in left hand - right hand raised in benediction

on the second or middle level of the font cover -- although identified in Lisch (1868) as "A saint with a book in his hand", the cruciferous halo aids to the identification -- on the right, one of the foolish virgins; on the left one of the wise virgins

Scene Description: on the second or middle level of the font cover -- although identified in Lisch (1868) as "A saint with a book in his hand", the cruciferous halo aids to the identification -- on the right, one of the foolish virgins; on the left one of the wise virgins

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID08: New Testament - Parable - Ten Virgins - Five foolish virgins

on the second or middle level of the font cover -- easily identifiable by their unhappy demeanor, the lamp turned upside-down and the lack of additional oil container

Scene Description: on the second or middle level of the font cover -- easily identifiable by their unhappy demeanor, the lamp turned upside-down and the lack of additional oil container

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

LID09: New Testament - Parable - Ten Virgins - Five wise virgins

on the second or middle level of the font cover -- easily identifiable by their broad smiles, their upright lamps and the oil container in their left hand

Scene Description: on the second or middle level of the font cover -- easily identifiable by their broad smiles, their upright lamps and the oil container in their left hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

Lid10: Apostle or saint -saints - female - 3

Scene Description: on the third level of the lid - the crowned one is identified in Lisch (1868) as St. Barbara

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: most of the arches have a three-leaf flower at the top

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - building

Scene Description: forming a pinnacle atop the columns on which the arch-heads rest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - foliage - palmette?

Scene Description: a fringe all around

information

Scene Description: Information panel inside the foyer of the church listing prohibitions for visitors

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: one on each of the amphorae held by the four figures [cf. Inscription area]

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes, etc.]

inscription

Scene Description: on the lower rim of the font cover: Anno Domini 1290

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin

on the upper register [L->R]: Resurrection - Chirst and Mary Magdalene (?) - Madonna and Child - Mary and Christ Child on to Jerusalem (?)
on the lower register [L->R]: Presentation at the Temple - Annunciation - Visitation

Scene Description: on the upper register [L->R]: Resurrection - Chirst and Mary Magdalene (?) - Madonna and Child - Mary and Christ Child on to Jerusalem (?) on the lower register [L->R]: Presentation at the Temple - Annunciation - Visitation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 1

[NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 10

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 2

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 3

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 4

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 5

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 6

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 7

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 8

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - side 9

Scene Description: [NB: the number of the 'sides' corresponds to the area of the basin comprised by the image, starting with the Annunciation and moving L->R]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - south transept

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - south transept - façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: showing the southwest corner of the tower

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: church adress is officially no. 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the high altar; painted and gilded wood; Berlin workshop; 1721

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - bell

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - organ

Scene Description: built in 1770 by Rostock master Paul Schmidt; re-built 1793 by Berlin master Ernst Marx, and, again, in 1939

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: posted inside the church`

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: Crucifixion retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - transept - south transept - window

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: B&W photograph taken ca. 1970 by Richard Peter; in the Deutsche Fotothek [http://www.deutschefotothek.de/?df_ps_0004977&sortby=aufnahmenr&sort=asc&dmode=galery] [accessed 5 April 2010]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 July 2009 by Arnoldius [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Germany_Rostock_St_Mary_baptismal_font.jpg&filetimestamp=20100117193857] [accessed 30 March 2010]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover - detail

Scene Description: on the lower level of the font cover -- showing the correspondence of scenes between the cover and the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph by Julen Bengoetxea

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Scene Description: one of the lion heads holding the rings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

showing some of the damage: one spot, between the feet of the two foolish virgings; the second spot, at the bottom left, beneath the letter N

Scene Description: showing some of the damage: one spot, between the feet of the two foolish virgings; the second spot, at the bottom left, beneath the letter N

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover - finial

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00096ROS

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Marienkirche / Hauptpfarrkirche St. Marien / Mariakyrkan

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Bei der Marienkirche 2, 18055 Rostock, Germany -- Tel.: +49 381 5108 9711

Country Name: Germany

Location: Rostock, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located 15 km S of the Baltic coast -- the church is located on Ziegenmarkt

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S apse, at the end of the S aisle

Date: ca. 1290?

Century and Period: 13th century (late), Early Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Arnold / Arndt [Lisch]

Cognate Fonts: Hildesheim Dom

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julen Bengoetxea for his photograph of this font

Font Notes: Click to view

An article on this font by the German scholar Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch (1801-1883) appeared originally in the Jahrbücher des Vereins für Mecklenburgische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, from which it was translated and published by The Ecclesiologist in 1868. In his detailed study of the font Lisch gives the location of the font at his time as "in a niche in the wall of the western tower", and recommends that it be cleared of its coating of paint, and moved into a suitable place, somewhere in the north transept, where the means [pulley, chains, etc.] by which the font [cover?] was raised and lowered should be restored. Lisch (ibid.), after a detailed description of scenes and figures on the font, further notes: "The constructor of our font is not known; probably it was a certain Arnold or Arndt, who is known as a caster of bells to have lived in Rostock in 1283." Described in Schiller (1971). Nordström (1984) notes that the four elements personified support the bowl. Noted in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzefünten_in_Nordostdeutschland_und_Polen] [accessed 30 March 2010]: "Auf die niedersächsische Herkunft der Künstler weisen Ähnlichkeiten mit der Bronzetaufe von 1225 im Hildesheimer Dom. Kessel und Deckel sind stilistisch deutlich unterschieden und stammen von verschiedenen Meistern. Eine Inschrift datiert den Guss oder die Weihe des Taufkessels auf Ostern 1290, damit ist die Fünte nicht nur das älteste Ausstattungsstück der Marienkirche sondern vermutlich auch die älteste eherne Fünte in Nordostdeutschland." Noted and profusely illustrated in Frank Sakowski's Einige Aspekte zur Fünte in der Rostocker Marienkirche Aufbauend auf der Broschüre „Die Fünte der St. Marienkirche zu Rostock“ (16.10.2015) [http://www.mv-terra-incognita.de/beitraege/st-marien/files/schimler/2015/16-10.htm] [accessed 5 March 2023]; the notes include information on the claening of the old paint in 1887. On-site notes: the Rostock baptismal font is a magnificent cast bronze object which resembles, in its general structure, though not in the detail, that of Hildesheim, the latter dated about 40-50 years earlier. The Rostock font is a bucket-shaped basin supported on four figures holding amphorae on which can be read an inscription of the four elements: fire, water, air and earth. The basin sides are divided into two registers of ornamentation by a horizontal band containing an inscription, and there are two more inscriptions, one at the top, another at the bottom; the top inscription is the Ave Maria; the middle and lower inscriptions are the Salve Regina; the lower register contains eight scenes related to the Childhood of Christ [L->R]: 1)Annunciation ; 2)Visitation; 3)Nativity; 4)Annunciation to the shepherds; 5)Massacre of the Innocent; 6)Flight to Egypt; 7)Adoration of the Magi; 8)Presentation at the Temple; the upper register contains ten scenes [L->R]: 1)Madonna and Child, both haloed, Child with cruciferous halo; 2) a haloed woman holds the hand of Christ Child holding a basket; the Child wears a cruciferous halo and carries a basket [is this from the Golden Legend's life of St. Dorothy?; 3)Temptation of Christ; Satan holds an inscribed scroll and points to a group of stones; 4)Betrayal of Judas Iscariot; 5)Kiss of Judas and Arrest of Christ; 6)Pontious Pilates washes his hands; two servants in attendance; 7)Flagellation, with two torturers; 8)Crucifixion, with Mary and john in attendance; 9)Resurrection; Christ emerges triumphant from tomb while two armoured soldiers sleep at its foot; 10). The cover is a splendid structure of four levels, conical, like the one at Heldesheim, but much taller; the scenes depicted on it are the Ascension, the Baptism of Christ in the presence of female martyrs, saints, bishops and deacons; the next level up is made up of the Foolish and the Wise Virgins; at the very top an eagle with outspread wings stands on a knop. The font is located now in the east apse, at the east end of the south aisle; we were told the font had been removed and hidden elsewhere to avoid the danger of it being melted for the war effort; we were also told there was originally and old pulley set up high in the wall of the church, but the location is not known now [cf. Lisch's recommendation supra]. The decoration of the figures uses groups of pinholes on the robes, dresses, decorative abnds, etc., even in the haloes of the holy figures; the pinholes appear chiefly as lines or in groups of four.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.09, 12.139

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 5′ 24″ N, 12° 8′ 20.4″ E

UTM: 33U 312892 5997320

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 95.5 cm*

Basin Depth: 69-70 cm*

Basin Total Height: 71 cm

Height of Base: 63 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 119 cm*

Notes on Measurements: All measurements taken on-site by BSI * [approximate; we did not have acccess to the open basin] ** [total height of the supporting figures]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: Six bands on the basin and lid, and also on the amphorae held at the base

Inscription Text: Basin upper rim: "AVE - MARJA - GRACIA - PLANE - DOMINVS - TECVM - BENEDJCTA - TVJ - JN - MVLJERJBVS - ED - BENEDJCTVS - FREGVS - VENTRIS - TVJ - A." Basin middle: "SALVE - REGINA - [MATER] MISERJCORDJE - VJTA - DVLZEDO - ET - SPES - NOSTRA - SLAVE - ADTE - CLAMA[m]VS - EXVLES - FILJJ - EVE ADTE" Bottom edge: "SVSPIRIMVS - GEMENTES - ET - FLENTES - JN - HAC - LACRIMARVM - VALLE - EYA - ERGO - ATVOAT - NOSTRA - JLLOS - TVOS - MIS[ERICORDES] Base: "TERRA / AQVA / AER / IGN[i]S" Cover rim: "OCVLOS - ADNOS - CONVERTE - ET - IHESVM - ANNO - DM - Mo - CoC - NOVOGESIMO - IN - FESTO - PACE - PREPARATVM - FUIT - BAPTISMVM - IN - ROZTOK" Cover middle: "BENEDICTVM - FRVCTVM - VENTRIS - TVI - NOBIS - POST - HOC - EX[ILIUM]" Cover up: "OSTEN[D]E - - CLEMENS - [O PIA O DULCIA VIRGO MARIA]

Inscription Source: Lisch (1868); Schiller (1971: 141, ill. 377)

LID INFORMATION

Date: ca. 1300?

Material: metal, bronze

Apparatus: [cf. fontNotes]

Notes: the height of the cover is 170 cm approximately [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; p. 89

Lisch, N/AGeorg Christian Friedrich, "The Font of S. Mary's Church at Rostock", CLXXXVI, The Ecclesiologist, 1868, pp. 154-157; p. 154-157

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971