Husby nr. Flensburg

Results: 65 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Longinus

Scene Description: only the lower part of the lance shown in this arch; the tip of it appears in the next arch, which shows Christ on the cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Passion of Christ - the instruments of the Passion - lance

Scene Description: Christ on the cross, the lance piercing his side; the handle of the lance is held by Longinus in the previous arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B03: human figure - unidentified

Scene Description: it appears to be on a cross (?) and/or with a snake around him? Could it be part of the Crucifixion scene? (it stands in the arch to the right of the one that inscribes Christ on the cross)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B04: human figure - unidentified

Scene Description: like the previous (left) figure, but here the hands appear to be held together in prayer

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B05: human figure - unidentified

Scene Description: the inside of the arch is almost blank, but there appears to be a human figure on the right

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B06: human figure - male - with ax

Scene Description: facing the figure in the next (right) arch: Luxuria -- is it part of the scene?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B07: virtues and vices - cardinal sins - Lust (Luxuria, Libido) - with serpents at her breast

Scene Description: the serpents appear to be pushed by the devil in the next (right) arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B08: devil(s) and demons - with serpents

Scene Description: appears to be sicking the serpents on the woman in the previous (left) arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B09: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Eve, the apple and the Tree

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B10: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Temptation and Fall - Adam, the apple and the Tree

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B11: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 10 - columns with capitals - double columns

Scene Description: all the arches have inscribed figures or motifs; in two of the arches here, Longinus pierces Christ's side with his lance

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

BS01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: various shapes of foliage in each spandrel of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding - 4

Scene Description: in semi-circle fashion, with inscribed symbols and motifs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LB02: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at the neck of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBH01: human figure - head - 3

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the base angles; the fourth one (?) may have been broken off

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBS01: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: on the west side of the quadrangular base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBS02: symbol - plant or tree - Tree of life?

Scene Description: on the south side of the quadrangular base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBS03: animal - mammal - lion - passant-regardant - with plant or tree

Scene Description: on the east side of the quadrangular base; the composition is like the one normally used for the Agnus Dei, but here it is a lion eating a plant instead of the usual lamb and bannered cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBS04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant

Scene Description: on the north side of the quadrangular base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

design element - motifs - braid

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the human heads in the spandrels of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: the northeast angle: missing head?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the interlacing shapes of the acanthus vine

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Luxuria (?) or Sheila-na-Gig (?) and devil

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: three arches that may be forming a scene: ax-man, Luxuria (?) or Sheila-na-Gig (?) and devil

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: head of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: notice the plugged drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - door

Scene Description: now blocked

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - ceiling - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and ceiling - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel arch - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: east end of the north gallery and font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - ceiling

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - north side - gallery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - north side - gallery - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - pew

Scene Description: an old box-pew at the west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit - sounding board

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - retable - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - St. Michael and dragon

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - St. Michael and dragon - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - St. Michael and dragon - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - statue - angel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - southeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font cover - south side

Scene Description: inscription related to the text of Matthew 20:22

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font cover - southwest side

Scene Description: inscription related to the text of Matthew 20:22

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00149HUS

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St.-Vincencius-Kirche / St. Vincentius Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent

Church Location: Kirchstraße 9, 24975 Husby, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4634 391

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located S of road 199, 8-10 km ESE of Flensburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Davies (1962 and Nordström (1984). On-site notes: baptismal font made of granite with an ochre/orange hue, consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised ona a round-to-square base; the basin has a braided pattern all around the upper surface of the rim; on the upper sides of the basin is a curling and interlacing acanthus vine; the vine is separated from the arcade below by a thin moulding; an arcade of ten round arches covers the sides and underbowl; the arches inscribe human figures, some of which form part of scenes: e.g., the Crucifixion includes the arch with Christ on the cross, as well as the prvious arch in which Longinus holds the lance that pierces Christ's side; in another scene a devil sicks serpents on the woman in the previous arch; the arch to the left of Luxuria (?) has a man holding up an ax; is he part of the scene? the three arches to the right of the Crucifixion have human digures but the scenes of motifs could not be identified. The base has a roll moulding at the neck, as well as rope mouldings that frame the scalloped sides; the four sides of the base have: north: dragon passant -- south: plant -- east: lion passant-regardant -- west: lion passant; in the spandrels of the angles are three human heads; not clear whether the fourth angle, now blank, held a head previously. The inner well of the basin is not lined and it has a frain hole now blocked. The font is now [20 August 2010] located at the northeast corner of the nave, just west of the chancel arch; not its original position. The painted wooden cover is roughly bell-shaped and has painted sides; the lower sides have a painted inscription in German with what appears to be the text of Matthew 20:22.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.762861, 9.577722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 45′ 46.3″ N, 9° 34′ 39.8″ E

UTM: 32U 537173 6068556

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite (ochre / light orange

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: drain blocked now -- no lining on the inner well

Rim Thickness: 10-11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 54-55 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 76 cm

Basin Depth: 32 cm -- 35 cm at the centre

Basin Total Height: 52 cm

Height of Base: 47 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 98-99 cm*

Square Base Dimensions: 59 x 69 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on site *[NB: the base of the font sits on a cement bed that may add 2 cm to the total height]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German

Inscription Notes: Matthew 20:22?

Inscription Location: on the font cover, lower sides

Inscription Text: "-GLAVB: / ET+VND+ / [...] GETAV = / FT+WER= / D- DER+ / WIRD+ / SELIG+ / WER+ DA+"

Inscription Source: on-ste transcription

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th-century?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

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