Jena No. 1

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design element - architectural - arch - round arch - 8

Scene Description: one on each side of the octagonal basin, with a trefoil window in it

design element - architectural - window - Gothic - trefoiled - 8

Scene Description: inside a round arche; one on each side of the octagonal basin

design element - motifs - scotia

Scene Description: a large one, just below the tracery motifs on the base

design element - motifs - tracery

Scene Description: a different Gothic motif on each side of the octagonal base

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Peterskirche in Jena-Lobeda. Blick von Susanne-Bohl-Straße"

Image Source: digital photograph 15 April 2020 by Felix55kerstan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2020-04-15_19-14-47_Peterskirche_Lobeda.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Luftaufnahme der Stadtkirche St. Michael in Jena (Kirchplatz 1)"

Image Source: digital photograph 30 September 2022 by RealPixelStreet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luftaufnahme_Stadtkirche_St._Michael_Jena.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Michael in Jena"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 February 2023 by Gerd Eichmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena-St_Michael-10-zum_Chor-2023-gje.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]

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view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche St. Michael in Jena"

Image Source: digital photograph 20 February 2023 by Gerd Eichmann [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jena-St_Michael-14-zur_Empore-2023-gje.jpg] [accessed 10 September 2024]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 08422JEN

Church/Chapel: Kirche St. Peter in Lobeda

Church Location: Coordinates & address for Jena St Michael's: Kirchpl. 1, 07743 Jena, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Gera, Thüringen

Directions to Site: Jena is located off the roads 7 and 88, 435-40 W of Gera, about the same distance E of Erfurt; St Michael's church is located in the city centre -- Lobeda is now a SW suburb of Jena: Martin-Niemöller-Straße 4, 07747 Jena-Lobeda

Font Location in Church: In the presbitery, N side, to the left of the altar

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font of the Gothic period; this font was originally from the Stadtkirche St. Michael in Jena, but was moved to the church of St. Peter in Lobeda in 1968, where it is located just left of the altar [source: http://www.thur.de/org/tlz/haus42.html]. Illustrated in Sciurie (2000: 33, 45, 63): chalice-shaped font; the upper basin sides are plain; lower down, each side of the octagonal basin has a round arch with a trefoil window in it; the stem of the base is very short and narrow; the lower base is octagonal and splayed, wider than the basin; the upper part of it is ornamented with a Gothic tracery motif, all different (Gothic "S", tetrafoil, three-srm "S", etc.); these are followed down by a large scotia; the bottom part is vertical and plain. Like many of the fonts of this area, the basin is now covered with an ironwork screen.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.929114, 11.588033

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 55′ 44.81″ N, 11° 35′ 16.92″ E

UTM: 32U 681865 5645132

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Sciurie, Helga, Kirchen um Jena: Eine Einführung in ihre Geschichte und symbolische Bedeutung, Jena: Glaux Verlag, 2000