Falkenhain in Drahnsdorf
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design element - motifs - moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph in Der Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (FAK)
[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - moulding
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - piping - 8
Scene Description: down the arrises of the basin sides
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - round moulding
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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design element - motifs - tendril
Scene Description: gilded
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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design element - patterns - torsade
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Dorfkirche Falkenhain in der Gemeinde Drahnsdorf"
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Image Source: digital photograph 26 May 2019 by Z thomas [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dorfkirche_Falkenhain_Drahnsdorf_2019-05-26_-4.jpg] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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view of font
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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view of font in context
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[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02824FAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche Falkenhain
Church Location: Falkenhain, 15938 Drahnsdorf, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Dahme-Spreewald, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located off the K6145 [aka Falkenhain], in the municipality and 1 km N of Drahnsdorf, abourt 50 km S of Berlin
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave
Date: ca. 1700?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: wooden font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: late-14thC church; re-built 17thC
Font Notes:
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An octagonal wooden font in this church is illustrated in Der Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg e.V. (FAK)
[https://www.altekirchen.de/offene-kirchen/kirchen/dorfkirche-falkenhain] [accessed 30 July 2023]; the font consists of an octagonal basin moulded below the rim, a rounded underbowl decorated at the arrises; moulded centre ring; gilded tendril following down on the curves of the thick torsade stem to a moulded lower base, also octagonal. Round, flat and plin font cover covering the area where the insert baptismal dish fits. The entry for this church in Wikipedia [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorfkirche_Falkenhain_(Drahnsdorf)] accessed 30 July 2023] mentions a wooden font from ca. 1700 in it; information probably from Dehio's Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler: Brandenburg (München / Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.9383, 13.595883
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 56′ 17.88″ N, 13° 35′ 45.18″ E
UTM: 33U 403476 5755107
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]