Wrzosow / Fritzow / Wrzosów
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Scene Description: the horizontal through crack in the basin is clearly visible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Grzegorz Solecki, 2018
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: the basin is cracked through horizontally
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kinga Krasnodębska / Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2022
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 - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: very shallow carving, as usual in these fonts
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kinga Krasnodębska / Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2022
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: as displayed in the 1939
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pomorskie Muzeum Krajowe w Szczecinie, 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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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kinga Krasnodębska / Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 2022
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: as displayed in the museum ca. 2022
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kinga Krasnodębska / Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 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
view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the museum ca. 2022
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kinga Krasnodębska / Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, 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
Font ID: 09146WRZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1270?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gotland font / Paradise font
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Museum: Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie, MNS/Szt/136
Church / Chapel Name: Parish church of Wrzosowo
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Previous Font Location(s): Parish church of Wrzosowo
Church Address: [NB: coordinates and address are for the town] Wrzosowo 38A, 72-400 Wrzosowo, Poland
Site Location: Gmina Kamień Pomorski, Województwo zachodniopomorskie, Poland, Europe
Directions to Site: Wrzosów is located off road 107, 6-7 km NE of Kamień Pomorski), 55-60 km NNE of Szczecin
Additional Comments: imported font / disused font (in a museum) / damaged font (basin cracked through) -- e-mailed the museum requesting info + pics (18 Jan 2024) Museum curator (?) Kinga Krasnodębska replied with info and pictures with permit
Font Notes:
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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.
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
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 487696 5985176
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)
Number of Pieces: three
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, p. 77-79
- Bronisch, Gerhard, Kreis Kammin Land, 1939, s. 157-158
- Mehnert, Annemarie, Mittelalterliche Taufsteine in Vorpommern, 1934, p. 17ff