Lichtenhagen

Image copyright © Henschelverlag, 1990

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Results: 12 records

B01: design element - motifs - scallop

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: ripple-like at the bottom of the figures

LBF01: human figure - female - standing - hands gathered in prayer

Scene Description: the figure on the left: female and wearing a head-dress

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

LBF02: human figure - male - standing - hands together in prayer

Scene Description: the figure in the centre

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

LBF03: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child? (or Abraham with soul?)

Scene Description: the figure on the left

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

LBF04: human figure - standing - hands together in prayer

Scene Description: the figure on the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

LBF05: human figure - female - standing - hands gathered in prayer

Scene Description: the figure on the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

view of base - detail - head

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

view of basin - detail - scallop

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolfram Hausberg, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph by Wolfram Hausberg taken on 10 January 2007 for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 22 January 2007)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henschelverlag, 1990

Image Source: B&W photograph in Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR Mecklenburgische Künstenregion (1990)

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view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Marion Timmermann, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph by Marion Timmermann, of Lichtenhagen Dorf, 2006

Copyright Instructions: Permision received (e-mail of 22 December 2006)

INFORMATION

FontID: 12400LIC
Church/Chapel: Dorfkirche Lichtenhagen
Country Name: Germany
Location: Bad Doberan, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Now a suburb of Rostock [NB: not to be mistaken with Lichtengahen/Gledowo, in Pommern]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: [NB: not to be mistaken with Lichtengahen/Gledowo, a Catholic church with a late octagonal baptismal font painted in lively colours]
Romanesque baptismal font illustrated in Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR Mecklenburgische Künstenregion (1990). Noted in Thurlby (2006), who points out that the appearence of the imbrication motif on fonts "speaks clearly of the iconographic connection between death and resurrection and their simulation in Baptism". The basptismal font consists of a hemispherical basin decorated with four parallel bands of scalloped motif, the underbowl plain; raised on a base made up of a cluster of several [six?] standing praying figures, male and female, one of them with a child wrapped or held in the figure's arms [perhaps the Madonna and Child, or Abraham with a soul? the rest perhaps apostles or saints?]. [We are grateful to Marion Timmermann, Wolfram Hausberg and Ursula Schultz, of Vorsitzende des Fördervereins zur Erhaltung der Dorfkirche Lichtenhagen e.V., for the photographs of this font]

COORDINATES

UTM: 33U 306043 6003263

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining

REFERENCES

Bau- und Kunstdenkmale in der DDR. Mecklenburgische Künstenregion: mit den Städten Rostock und Wismar, Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1990
Thurlby, Malcolm, Romanesque architecture and sculpture in Wales, Little Logaston, Woonton, Almeley, Herts.: Logaston Press, 2006