Kleinsolt / Freienwill / Klein-Solt / Lille Solt
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 08832KLE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font
Church / Chapel Name: Johannes Kirche, Freienwill / St.-Johannes-Kirche Klein-Solt / Lille Solt kirke
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John
Church Address: Eckernförder Landstraße 34, Freienwill, Germany
Site Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the L23, E of highway 7, about 8 km SSE of Flensburg city centre
Additional Comments: imported font (imported from Gotland)
Font Notes:
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Described in Drake (2002: 91-92) as a limestone baptismal font, although later in the same work (ibid., p. 179), it is listed as a granite font, as in the case of the Satrup font. The basin is hemispherical and appears totally plain; there is a roll-moulding decorating the top of the shaft/stem, with four human heads just below it [NB: only two heads are visible in Drake's illustration (ibid. pl. 313), one of which wears a crown].
Illustration of the font in the 1904 book by Ernst Sauermanns "Die mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein"
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lille_Solt_kirkes_døbefont_i_Sydslesvig,_gotlandsk_kalksten.jpg] [accessed18 June 2025]. The 25 May 2022 digital photograph by Benatello [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalksteintaufe_in_Kleinsolt.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2025]
shows the heads painted, and other traces of paint on the lower base. The material of the Font is probably Gotland limestone, not granite [cf. supra].
Illustration of the font in the 1904 book by Ernst Sauermanns "Die mittelalterlichen Taufsteine der Provinz Schleswig-Holstein"
[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lille_Solt_kirkes_døbefont_i_Sydslesvig,_gotlandsk_kalksten.jpg] [accessed18 June 2025]. The 25 May 2022 digital photograph by Benatello [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kalksteintaufe_in_Kleinsolt.jpg] [accessed 18 June 2025]
shows the heads painted, and other traces of paint on the lower base. The material of the Font is probably Gotland limestone, not granite [cf. supra].
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 531703 6064630
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 54.72795, 9.49228
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 54° 43′ 40.62″ N, 9° 29′ 32.21″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern?
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain, with knob handle
REFERENCES
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 91-92, 144, 179 and pl. 313