Munkbrarup / Munkebrarup

Results: 67 records

B01: hunting scene - lion hunting - hunters - 3 (part 1)

Scene Description: the hunter on the left thrusts its lance into the lion who has hold of the second hunter as he stabs the lion with his sword

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B02: hunting scene - lion hunting - hunters - 3 (part 2)

Scene Description: the hunter stabs the lion that has hold of him

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B03: hunting scene - lion hunting - hunters - 3 (part 3)

Scene Description: the full body of the lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B04: hunting scene - lion hunting - hunters - 3 (part 4)

Scene Description: the third hunter stabs the hind quarters of the lion with the sword in his right hand, the left holding the scabbard

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B05: human figure - male - crwoned - king - seated - with sword in the left hand - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: inscribed in a arch; seats on top of a blind arcade of round arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B06: design element - motifs - interlace - knot - acanthus knot

Scene Description: inscribed in a round arch; on a row of blank arches or scallops, a row of crenellation and a blind arcade of round arches

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B07: human figure - male - hunter - on foot - blowing horn - with sword

Scene Description: inscribed in a round arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B08: design element - motifs - plant or tree

Scene Description: it appears to be part of the scenery, rather than a symbol [Tree of Life, etc.]; there are other such forming part of the hunting scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

B09: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

the arcade has only two and a half arches: it starts to the right of the hunter stabbing the hind quarters of the lion in the hunting scene; the first full arch houses the seated king; the second full arch houses an acanthus knot, a set of small arches below, a short band of crenellation and a blind arcade below, all in one panel

Scene Description: the arcade has only two and a half arches: it starts to the right of the hunter stabbing the hind quarters of the lion in the hunting scene; the first full arch houses the seated king; the second full arch houses an acanthus knot, a set of small arches below, a short band of crenellation and a blind arcade below, all in one panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

BBU01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: also visible here, ion the lower left, is the tip of the lion's tail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

BS01: animal - mammal - lion - head

Scene Description: in the spandrel to the right of the seared king

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LB01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Scene Description: unfinished; it appears on two and and half of the lower base sides; the other one and a half sides are blank

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBF01: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - atlante or orant

Scene Description: the figure appears human, though the head is too large for the body

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBF02: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - seated - elbows on knees - hands holding face or pulling beard - phallic

Scene Description: the seated figure may be more simian than human; an erect phallus appears between its legs

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBF03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - sejant - phallic

Scene Description: not human; phallus apparent

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

LBF04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - sejant

Scene Description: very worn; appears to be seated, with hands held low in front

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - torsade pattern

the arcade is incomplete; it starts on the side under the hunter blowing his horn and stops about half-way under the seated king; the legs of the man being devoured by the lion are overlayed on it as well

Scene Description: the arcade is incomplete; it starts on the side under the hunter blowing his horn and stops about half-way under the seated king; the legs of the man being devoured by the lion are overlayed on it as well

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

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Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base

Scene Description: notice the unfinished vine on the left side of the lower base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin

Scene Description: the metal tripod inside the basin supports the brass basin used for baptism

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: one of the hunters

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: with the metal tripod that supports the brass basin used for baptisms

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - interior - detail

Scene Description: there appears to have been a centre drain hole, now blocked

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - column base - arcade

Scene Description: the granite has held well the exposure to the elements

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - column base - worn arcade

Scene Description: base of a pillar: the sandstone badly worn by the exposure to the elements

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - door - detail - ironwork

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - north porch

Scene Description: vapenhus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum - traditio legis

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - arch - Samson fighting the lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - arch - detail - Samson fighting the lion

Scene Description: Samson fighting the lion

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - east side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - traditio legis

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum - traditio legis - SS Peter and Paul with Christ

Scene Description: Christ in Majesty; Peter with the keys; [?] with a scroll

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - altar - large rood cross with Christ and symbols of Evangelists

Scene Description: side altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west - organ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: notice both doorways, north and south

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit

Scene Description: the 17th-century pulpit and 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 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - rood cross - triumphal cross

Scene Description: side altar

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of font - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2023 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: to the left (north), just inside the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2010 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 04707MUN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: St. Laurentius-Kirche zu Munkbrarup

Church Patron Saints: St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]

Church Location: An der Kirche 3, 24960 Munkbrarup, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4631 8714

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located off (S) road 199 [aka Nordstrasse], 8-10 km ENE of Flensburg, 10 km NNW of Sørup]

Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Hamburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery, NE end

Date: ca. 1200?

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

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar to the font in Nieblum

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the church pastor for his help in accessing the church and in documenting the font in our May 2023 visit

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Blindheim (1965). Described and illustrated in Carlsson (1976) as a monolithic bucket-shaped font with a slightly narrower base and a wider lower base; the basin side has a hunting scene in which a large lion is stabbed by two men, one of which has the top of his head in the mouth of the lion; the stem of the base is decorated with a blind arcade the columns of which have torsade pattern; the lower base has leaf motif on the sides and corner figures, one of which is described in Carlsson (ibid.) as "a phallic man pulling his beard or chin." [cf. also an article by Inger-Lise Kolstrup, "Munkbrarupfontens udsmykning" in ROMANSKE STENARBEJDER (Højbjerg, DK: Folaget Hikuin, 1989): p. 139-154 - ***to be analysed and added]. On-site notes: the round basin has a hunting scene that includes three active hunters: the hunter on the left spears the lion; the hunter in the centre thrusts his sword into the lion's body as the animal holds him and has his head partially in its mouth; the third hunter thrusts his sword in the hind quarters of the lion; next is a seated crowned figure holding a sword in his left hand while the right is raised in benediction(or an ordering gesture?); he sits on a blind arcade of round arches; an acanthus knot inscribed in a round arch, on a row of blank arches or scallops, a row of crenellation and a blind arcade of round arches; inscribed in the next arch, a hunter on foot, armed with a sword and blowing his horn; the stem has an arcade of round arches, partly unfinished; the round-to-square lower base has an unfinished vine or interlace on the sides; at the angles are four figures, not quite human, though two of them may be grotesque characters; one is an atlante; the other one is seated, elbows on knees, its face on its hands, and an erect phallus between its legs; another seated figure, perhaps simian, has also a distinct phallus between its legs. The granite font is in fair shape of conservation, with some rust coloration around the upper rim. There is no cover. A metal tripod is used to support the brass basin used for baptism; there appears to be a drain hole, now blocked. There is no cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.802417, 9.56225

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 48′ 8.7″ N, 9° 33′ 44.1″ E

UTM: 32U 536143 6072950

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Rim Thickness: 7-9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 71-73 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 89-90 cm*

Basin Depth: 38 cm*

Basin Total Height: 63-64 cm* / 87 cm*

Height of Base: 24-26 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 86-88 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 111-113 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [NB: composite of two measurements; insconsistancy relates to how the 'base/plinth' is included in the total]

REFERENCES

Blindheim, Martin, Norwegian Romanesque Decorative Sculpture, 1090-1210, London: Alec Tiranti, 1965

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

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

Hoffmann, Erich, "Die Kuppa des Taufsteins von Munkbrarup: eine bildliche Aussage über den 'Märtyrertod' Knud Lavars", 2001, pp. 115-120; p. 115-120

Holsting, S., "Munkbrarupfontens hemmelighed?", 4, 2, ICO – Iconographisk Post. Nordisk tidskrift för bildtolkning – Nordic Review of Iconography, 1973, pp. 12-18, 3 fig.; p. 12-18, fig. 1, 2 and 3.

Kolstrup, Inger-Lise, "Munkbrarupfontens udsmykning", Skandinaviske symposium om romanske stenarbejder, september 1985 i Viborg, Viborg: Hikuin, 1989

Sauermann, Ernst, Die Mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein, 1904