Gross Brutz / Brusenitze / Gross Brütz / Groß Brütz

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Groß Brütz, Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deutschland"

Image Source: digital photograph 2 March 2013 by Klostermönch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groß_Brütz_Kirche_2013-03-02_64.JPG] [accessed 8 January 2025]

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Kirche in Groß Brütz, Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Deutschland" -- showing the wooden font and cover by the right window of the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph 2 March 2013 by Klostermönch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groß_Brütz_Kirche_2013-03-02_49.JPG] [accessed 8 January 2025]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: showing the wooden font and cover by the right window of the chancel

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 March 2013 by Klostermönch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Groß_Brütz_Kirche_2013-03-02_49.JPG] [accessed 8 January 2025]

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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the wooden hexagonal font of ca. 1700

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 5 August 2018 by Häven [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kirche_Brüsewitz_Groß_Brütz.jpg] [accessed 8 January 2025]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08836BRU

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-Lutherische Dorfkirche in Groß Brütz

Church Location: Dorfstraße 17, 19071 Brüsewitz, Germany -- Tel.: +49 38874 41543

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located off road 104, in he municipality and about 4 km S of Brüsewitz, 10-12 km WNW of Schwerin

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schwerin

Font Location in Church: Outside the church, in the churchyard

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century (?), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Paradise font / Paradisenfunten (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl)

Church Notes: church here mentioned in the late 13thC; present church consecrated 1456

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Drake (2002: 183) as a baptismal font of the Gotlandic Paradise group (Visby type - quatrefoil bowl). Identified in Berggren (2002: 150 fn17) as a baptismal font made of Gotlandic limestone [NB: Berggren notes earlier erroneous identifications of its material as granite]. The old font was apparently replaced by a wooden one of hexagonal shape ca. 1699; the stone font was then relegated to the churchyard re-purposed as a planter.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.650202, 1.253706

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 39′ 0.73″ N, 11° 15′ 13.34″ E

UTM: 32U 648954 5946964

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotlandic limestone)

Font Shape: cruciform / quatrefoil (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: quatrefoil

Basin Exterior Shape: quatrefoil

REFERENCES

Berggren, Lars, "The Export of Limestone and Limestone Fonts from Gotland during the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries", 2002

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002