Wismar No. 1 / Wismer

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B1R01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - cruciferous halo - Virgin Mary - St. John the Baptist

Scene Description: tentative identification of the two kneeling figures on the sides of Christ -- the figure partially visible on the left is probably Paul, holding a sword, from the second set of six Apostles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key

Scene Description: one very large and ornate key

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross - holding book in left hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R03: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross - holding book in left hand - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist - holding goblet or chalice

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist - holding goblet or chalice - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R05: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Judas Thaddeus - holding club - holding book in left hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R06: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidenitfied

Scene Description: to the right after Jude Thadeus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R07: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidenitfied

Scene Description: a second one, to the left of the Crucifixion scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - holding book in left hand

Scene Description: Mary on the left; john on the right; all figures haloed, Christ with cruciferous nimbus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist - holding book in left hand

Scene Description: the figure on the left is an unidentified apostel, one of the set of six between the Majestas Domini and the Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R09: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R09: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R10: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - with cross and banner - soldiers sleep

Scene Description: the banner (?) held by Christ in his left hand is an odd-looking object

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R11: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Ascension - Apostles present

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R12: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidentified

Scene Description: immediately to the right of the Ascension scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R13: Apostle or saint - holding book in both hands - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R14: Apostle or saint - holding book in left hand - unidentified

Scene Description: hooded; the right hand, palm in, to his chest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R15: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - holding staff - wearing pilgrim garb

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R15: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Less - holding fuller's club? - detail

Scene Description: odd double hood or helmet; or, is it James the Greater's pilgrim hat? ditto the staff or club in his right hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R16: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew - holding flaying knife

Scene Description: there should be no doubt as to the identity of the object in his right hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B1R17: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding sword in left and - holding book in right hand

Scene Description: the kneeling figure on the right is part of the Christ in Majesty scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R01: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R01: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness - detail

Scene Description: the pile of rocks between Satan and Christ probably a symbol for the mountain

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R01: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness - detail

Scene Description: the plant or tree by which Christ prays probably a symbol for the wilderness

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand? - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R02: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head - holding book in left hand? - detail

Scene Description: or, is it a water container?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R03: New Testament - public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?

Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgins?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R03: New Testament - public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?

Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R04: New Testament - public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?

Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgin?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R05: New Testament - public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?

Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgin?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R06: New Testament - public life of Christ - parable of the wise and foolish virgins?

Scene Description: Matthew 25:1-13 -- four crowned female figures, each carrying a cross-and-banner and a lamp -- wise virgin?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows

Scene Description: the scene involves three figures over three arches: on the left a haloed female (Mary); in the centre Christ, naked to the waist, wearing the crown of thorns; his hands tied up; cruciferous halo; on the right a haloed male figure, his right hand raised with palm out, a book in his left (John)

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows - detail

Scene Description: the third figure in the group; notice the book with straps

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Man of sorrows - detail

Scene Description: the figure in the extreme right arch is not part of the scene, but one of several crowned figures

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: there are five of them; the banners are similar but the objects they carry are distinctly different -- these are the first [L->R} of the five; the figure partially visible in the left arch belongs to the Man of Sorrows scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: these are figures three and four of the set of five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: this is figure number five, located just left of the Flagellation scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R08: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: the first [L-.R] figure of the set of five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R09: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: this is the second [L->R] figure of the set of five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R10: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: this is the third [L->R] figure of the set of five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R11: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: this is the fourth [L->R] figure of the set of five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R12: Human figure - female - crowned - standing - holding cross and banner - holding unidentified object

Scene Description: this is the fifth [L->R] figure of the set of five

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R13: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

B2R13: New Testament - Passion of Christ - flagellation - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF01: human figure - male - standing

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF02: human figure - male - standing

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF02: human figure - male - standing - detail

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF02: human figure - male - standing - detail

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF03: human figure - male - standing

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF03: human figure - male - standing - detail

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

UBF03: human figure - male - standing - detail

Scene Description: one of three supporting the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

animal - claw - 3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

animal - claw - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - crocketed arches - arches on columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: most of the arches in this register, as with the one avove, are pointed, but the scene of the Flagellation shows rounded arches instead -- notice how the central support column serves also as the scouring pillar to which Christ is tied -- Pontius Pilate's servants use different types of scourges: one is birch, the other a whip of the 'cat o'nine tails' type

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - on columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: the arch-heads crowned

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - grapevine - bearing fruit

Scene Description: all around the lower end of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: posted outside the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

information

Scene Description: information and photos on the font kept in a binder, in the baptistery chapel, near the font; source unknown

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: in black lettering, right below the upper rim; very faint and unreadable now

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: the 'ornament' at the bottom may have been originally a drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - rim - detail

Scene Description: one of the two anchors for the old font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of basin - rim - detail

Scene Description: one of the two anchors for the old font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: seen from the harbour

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2011 by Lubalo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wismar_St.Nikolai.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2013 by Siegfried von Brilon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wismar_St._Nikolai_,_Turmansicht.JPG] [accessed 15 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: view of Wismar from the northwest in 1640: the three tallest buildings: St. Nikolai, on the left, St. Marien, centre, and St. Iurgen [George], on the right

Image Source: ill. from Merian d. Ä., Matthäus' Topographia Germaniae, Bd.14: Topographia Saxoniae Inferioris (Niedersachsen), Frankfurt am Main 1653) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wismar#mediaviewer/File:Matthäus_Merian_sen._-_Wismar,_Ansicht_von_Nordwesten.jpg] [accessed 15 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior in context - southeast end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2013 by Siegfried von Brilon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wismar,_St._Nikolai,_Außenansicht_mb.JPG] [accessed 15 September 2014]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: 15thC -- view from the nave

view of church interior - canopy, baldachin - canopy

Scene Description: the 18thC 'Taufgehäuse'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - canopy, baldachin - canopy - detail

Scene Description: in the 18thC 'Taufgehäuse'

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: view from the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of font

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 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: in a chapel on the north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02581WIS

Church/Chapel: St. Nikolai Kirche [originally from St. Marienkirche]

Church Location: Sankt-Nikolai-Kirchehof, Wismar 23966 - Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located off the E22-105, 30 km N of Schwerin, 45 km E of Lübeck, near the Polish border

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Ratzeburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the St. Nikolai church, in N side chapel off the nave

Date: 1335?

Century and Period: 14th century, Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: attributed to Hans Apengeter

Cognate Fonts: Fonts at the cathedral in Schwerin and at the St. Jakobs- and Dionysiuskirche in Gadebusch

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

Church Notes: present church built 1381-1487; storm destroyed spire and vault in 1703; restored 19thC; minor damage in WWII, but items brought into St. Nikolai from much-damaged St. Georgen's and St. Marien's

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font made of bronze noted in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland und Polen' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzefünten_in_Nordostdeutschland_und_Polen] [accessed 30 March 2010]: "Heute in St. Nikolai, Wismar. Zuschreibung als Vorbild der Fünte der Lübecker Marienkirche". On-site notes: a bronze font somewhat similar in general structure to the one at St. Mary's cathedral, Hildesheim, and cognate of the fonts at nearby Schwerin and Gadebusch: a bucket-shaped basin finely carved is supported by three kneeling/crouching figures; the sides of the basin are divided into two registers, each with an arcade of pointed crocketed arches and pinnacles, containing scenes and figures. UPPER REGISTER [L->R]: 1)Christ in Majesty with two kneeling figures (Mary and John?); 2)Peter; 3)Andrew; 4)John; 5)Jude Thadeus; 6)unidentified apostle; 7)unidentified apostle ; 8)Crucifixion with Mary and John in attendance; 9)Harrowing of Hell; 10)Resurrection; two sleeping soldiers by the tomb; 11)Ascension; 12-14)three unidentified apostles; 15)James the Less? he holds an object in his right hand that could be a staff or a fullers pole; 16)Bartholomew, holding a flaying knife in his right hand; 17)Paul, holding a book in his right hand, a sword in his left. The font is surrounded [protected?] by an odd railing made of thick knotted metal wire "Teufelsgitter", said to have been added to the font in the 16th century. The font cover of wood provided with a pulley system; it has an octagonal base with eight supporting colonnettes. [cf. Index entry for Wismar No. 2 for a stone font at St. Nikolai]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.895558, 11.465533

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 53′ 44.01″ N, 11° 27′ 55.92″ E

UTM: 32U 662004 5974718

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 94 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm

Basin Depth: 79-80 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 70 cm [+8 cm of frill]

Basin Total Height: 78 cm*

Height of Base: 35 cm

Height of Side Columns: 48 cm [total height of the figures]

Font Height (less Plinth): 113 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site / *[NB: the height of the basin is less than the depth because the bottom is rounded]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: black-lettering; very faint now

Inscription Location: on the side of the font, directly below the rim

Inscription Source: Image Area

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood,

Apparatus: yes; pulley system

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]