Hohen Viecheln / Vichele

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design element - patterns - ribbed

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human figure - 4

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Sourrce caption: "Kirche in Hohen Viecheln, Landkreis Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern"

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view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "KIrche Hohen Viecheln"

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Scene Description: Source caption: "KIrche Hohen Viecheln"

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INFORMATION

FontID: 13809VIE

Church/Chapel: Evevangelish-lutherische Dorfkirche Hohen Viecheln

Church Location: Pfarrweg 1, 23996 Hohen Viecheln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 38423 54845

Country Name: Germany

Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklebourg-Vorpommern

Directions to Site: Located off road L031 [aka Frtiz-Reuter Str.], 15 km NNE of Schwerin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, N side

Century and Period: 13th century (mid?), Late Romanesque Early Gothic

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting the fonts of this church

Church Notes: said to be one of seven churches built by Helmold von Plesse ca. 1178; re-built early 14thC; much damaged in Thirty Years' War; renovated 1958-1862

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Illustrated in Schöfbeck & Heussner (2008). Baptismal font made of granite and consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a plain pedestal base; the sides of the basin are decorated with broad but shallow ribs all around resembling an arcade; at 90-degree angles on the basin sides are four large protruding human heads, at least two of which are of bearded males wearing headdress of some sort; there is damage to the upper rim of the basin. [NB: see BSI entry for Dobin an See for a font known as "Döpelstein" recovered from the Döpe around 1775]. Heste's Festschrift on the 700 anniversary of this church [Festschrift-komprimiert (1).pdf] [accessed 10 June 2024] counts up to six baptismal fonts related to this church

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.784504, 11.513347

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 47′ 4.21″ N, 11° 30′ 48.05″ E

UTM: 32U 665582 5962477

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Heste, Dirk, "700 Jahre Kirche in Hohen Viecheln: 1310 bis 2010"

Schöfbeck, Tilo, "Dendrochronologische Untersuchungen an mittelalterlichen Kunstwerken zwischen Elbe und Oder", Die Kunst des Mittelalters in der Mark Brandenburg: Tradition - Transformation - Innovation, Berlin: Lukas Verlag, 2008