Wrzosow / Fritzow / Wrzosów

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: very shallow carving, as usual in these fonts

Image Source: digital photograph by Kinga Krasnodębska, in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph by Kinga Krasnodębska, in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

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Scene Description: the basin is cracked through horizontally

Image Source: digital photograph by Kinga Krasnodębska, in the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 20 February 2024)

view of font

Scene Description: the horizontal through crack in the basin is clearly visible here

Image Source: digital image 2 March 2018 by Grzegorz Solecki [http://pomeranica.pl/wiki/Plik:Chrzcielnica_z_Wrzosowa.jpg] [accessed 25 February 2024]

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Scene Description: as displayed in the 1939

Image Source: digital image of a pre-1939 B&W photograph in the Archiwum MNS [AFoto 1538], Pomorskie Muzeum Krajowe w Szczecinie, in Pomeranica [http://pomeranica.pl/wiki/Plik:Wrzosowo_MNS_AFoto_XXIX_2421.jpg] [accessed 25 February 2024]

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Scene Description: as displayed in the museum ca. 2022

Image Source: digital photograph by Kinga Krasnodębska, in Mysterium des Lichts / Mittelalterliche Kunst (2022), Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

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Scene Description: as displayed in the museum ca. 2022

Image Source: digital photograph by Kinga Krasnodębska, in Mysterium des Lichts / Mittelalterliche Kunst (2022), Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE – IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

INFORMATION

FontID: 09146WRZ

Museum and Inventory Number: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie

Church/Chapel: Parish church of Wrzosowo

Church Location: [NB: coordinates and address are for the town] Wrzosowo 38A, 72-400 Wrzosowo, Poland

Country Name: Poland

Location: Gmina Kamień Pomorski, Województwo zachodniopomorskie

Directions to Site: Wrzosów is located off road 107, 6-7 km NE of Kamień Pomorski), 55-60 km NNE of Szczecin

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1270?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font / Paradise font

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention. We are also grateful to Kinga Krasnodębska, of the Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, for her photograph of this font and for her help in documenting it

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Mehnert (1934) as a 'Rambin' type, after the font in the place of the name in Rügen. Catalogued and illustrated in Krasnodębska (2022) as one of the medieval fonts of around the 13th century imported from Gotland, with reference to Mehnert [cf. supra] and to Bronisch and Ohle (1939) for the dating: "Gotland workshop, ca. 1270. Gotland limestone, iron [ring]. Dimensions: H 106,5 cm, ø 87 cm (ø 89 cm - ring). Weight: ca. 840 kg. Inv. No.: MNS/Szt/136. From the church in Wrzosowo (near Kamień Pomorski). The font is a typical example of the Gotland Paradise font group ["paradisenfunten"]. No cover present.

COORDINATES

UTM: 33U 487696 5985176

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)

Number of Pieces: 3

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 106.5 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Krasnodębska (2022)

REFERENCES

Misterium Światła. Sztuka średniowieczna na Pomorzu / Das Mysterium des Lichts. Mittelalterliche Kunst in Pommern, kat. wyst., Szczecin: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2022

Bronisch, Gerhard, Kreis Kammin Land, 1939

Mehnert, Annemarie, Mittelalterliche Taufsteine in Vorpommern, 1934