Blankenese / Hamburg-Blankenese
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view of font
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Agrewe, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2012 by Agrewe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg,_Ev._Kirche_Blankenese_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 7 April 2018]
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inscription
![Source caption: "Hamburg, Blankeneser Kirche, Taufkessel aus Bronze, 13. Jahrhundert. Inschrift (spiegelverkehrt) aus der benedictio fontis, der Segnung des Taufwassers in der Osternacht: SIT FONS VIVUS AQUA REGENERANS UNDA PURIFICANS (Es sei lebendiger Quell, Wasser der Wiedergeburt, reinigende Welle)" -- the inscription is done backwards, in mirrored form [cf. Inscription area] -- the two anchorings for the original font cover are visible here: one at upper rim (to accommodate a rod lock) and one on the side (to lock the end of the rod to)](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1180407007_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hamburg, Blankeneser Kirche, Taufkessel aus Bronze, 13. Jahrhundert. Inschrift (spiegelverkehrt) aus der benedictio fontis, der Segnung des Taufwassers in der Osternacht: SIT FONS VIVUS AQUA REGENERANS UNDA PURIFICANS (Es sei lebendiger Quell, Wasser der Wiedergeburt, reinigende Welle)" -- the inscription is done backwards, in mirrored form [cf. Inscription area] -- the two anchorings for the original font cover are visible here: one at upper rim (to accommodate a rod lock) and one on the side (to lock the end of the rod to)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Agrewe, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 September 2012 by Agrewe [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hamburg,_Ev._Kirche_Blankenese_Taufbecken.JPG] [accessed 7 April 2018]
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view of basin
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view of church exterior - west view
Scene Description: the modern Marktkirche in Blankenese
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © hh oldman, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 February 2012 by hh oldman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Blankenese_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 7 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - foot or claw - 3
Scene Description: at the end of each leg
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dirtsc, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 2 March 2012 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bk_taufkessel.jpg] [accessed 7 March 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05655BLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1250?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (mid?), Medieval
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-lutherische Blankeneser Kirche am Markt / Marktkirche
Church Notes: present church 1895; modified 1950; restored 2010
Church Address: Mühlenberger Weg 64A, 22587 Hamburg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 40 8662500
Site Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Blankenese is a residential district of Hamburg since its incorporation to the city in 1929. It is located on the right bank of the Elbe estuary.
Additional Comments: re-cycled font / moved font (originally from Nienstedne, now in Hamburg)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Grützner (1996: 20-21) as a bronze baptismal font dated to the middle of the 13th century; the basin is bucket-shaped and is plain except for an inscription [cf. Inscription area] that runs around the upper basin side between two thin mouldings, and another two such mouldings around the lower basin side; the basin is raised on three very slender legs, welded to lower basin rim at 120-degree angles; these three legs end in foot-like motifs. [NB: cf. Index entry for Nienstedtene for details and images of the present church there].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 553844 5935062
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.561667, 9.812917
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 33′ 42″ N, 9° 48′ 46.5″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 72 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 92.6 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Grützner (1996: 20), after Grundmann and Gobert, Bau- und Kunstdenkmalen der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (Bd. II, 1959: 183)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: Around the upper basin side
Inscription Text: "SIT: FONS: VIVVS: AQVA: REGENERANS: VNDA: PVRIFICANS"
Inscription Notes: The inscription is done backwards, in a mirrored form
Inscription Source: Grützner (1996: 21), after Grundmann and Gobert, Bau- und Kunstdenkmalen der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (Bd. II, 1959: 183)
REFERENCES
- Grundmann, Guenther, Bau- und Kunstdenkmalen der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg (2 vols.), 1953, Bd. II, p. 183
- Grützner, Winfried, Blankeneser Kirche: Das Blankeneser Gemeindeleben seit 1060 anläßlich des 100jährigen Kirchenjubiläums 1896-1996, Hamburg: Johann Christian Petersen Verlag, 1996, p. 20-21