Lubeck No. 4 / Lübeck
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Jakobi Lübeck, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph in the Ev.-Luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Jakobi Lübeck [www.kirche-ll.de/gemeinden/innenstadtgemeinden/st-jakobi/bildergalerie.html] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - Evangelist - St. John - holding goblet
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - wearing pilgrim garb - detail
Scene Description: the staf is missing from his left hand
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - wearing pilgrim garb
Scene Description: staff missing
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified
Scene Description: lost its attribute/symbol
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul and St. Bartholomew
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter and St. Paul
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: showing here Peter and Paul
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns
Scene Description: The 'columns' are decorated buttresses.
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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inscription - partial
Scene Description: includes the date of the font, 1466, in Roman numerals
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12 - standing
Scene Description: originally they all had identifying symbols, but some of them have lost them now; of the ones visible here: the one at the extreme left appears to be Bartholomew with his flaying knife; the two Apostles in the middle arches have lost their symbols; James the Greater is easily identified by his pilgrim garb, even if his staff is missing
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2011 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_Luebeck_St_Jakobi_baptismal_font_1.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 May 2006 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_Luebeck_St_Jakobi_church.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Oleg Krivolapov, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 June 2011 by Oleg Krivolapov [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lubeck_-_panoramio_(1).jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church exterior in context - north view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Lübeck, Schuppen 9 am Lübecker Hafen vor dem Burgkloster und St. Jakobi".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © C.J.N.L. Kyll, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 August 2014 by C.J.N.L. Kyll [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lübeck,_Schuppen_9.JPG] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church interior - railing - detail
Scene Description: part of the railing that encloses the baptismal font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church interior - railing - detail
Scene Description: part of the railing that encloses the baptismal font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church interior - monument
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church interior - detail
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view of font and cover in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church interior - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "Outside view of the Brömbsenaltar with closed wings in St. Jakobi, Lübeck, the lower wings show St. James with book and pigrim's staff (left) and St. Nicolas blessing three young men, with the Annunciation on the smaller upper wings"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image from an August 2010 scan of an undated old postcard [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bromsenaltar_001_crop.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: the Brömbse-Altar / Broemsenaltar: two sets of panels can be closed separately showing different scenes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bodo Kubrak, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2015 by Bodo Kubrak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Jakobi_(Lübeck)_Brömbse-Altar.JPG] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: with the font and cover on the left
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Bodo Kubrak, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2015 by Bodo Kubrak [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Jakobi_(Lübeck)_Lettnertreppe.JPG] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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information
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2025
Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI
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information
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Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of font cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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view of font cover - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI
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angel - kneeling - 3
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnoldius, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 November 2011 by Arnoldius [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_Luebeck_St_Jakobi_baptismal_font_1.jpg] [accessed 13 April 2018]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 14559LUB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-05-20
Font Date: 1466
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Klaus Grude
Church / Chapel Name: St. Jakobi Kirche / Jakobikirche
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in its own raised enclosure
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Notes: pre-1227 Romanesque church destroyed in 1276 fire; re-built church consecrated 1334 as "Kirche der Seefahrer und Fischer"
Church Address: Jakobikirchhof 3, 23552 Lübeck, Germany -- Tel.: +49 451 308010
Site Location: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: The church is located in Lübeck's Innenstadt, at the corner of Jakobikirchhof and Breite Str.
Additional Comments: [NB: 20 May 2023: access during our visit to this church was restricted: not allowed enter the enclosure to measure the font; photographed from outside, through the railing gaps]
Font Notes:
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Lübke (1870) notes a metal font of 1466 supported by angels. The bronze font was made in 1466 by the Lübeck caster-founder Klaus Grude (d. 1493). Noted in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzef%C3%BCnten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accessed 2 April 2010]: Das eherne Taufbecken ist von Grude beim Guss mit Pfingsten 1466 signiert und datiert. Es war eine testamentarische Stiftung des Lübecker Ratsherrn Johann Broling.[5] Das Becken steht auf den gleichen Füßen in der Gestalt kniender Engel wie das Taufbecken von Lorenz Grove aus dem Jahr 1455 im Lübecker Dom. Daraus wird gefolgert, die Formen Groves müssten auf Klaus Grude übergegangen sein. Außen sind auf dem Kessel neun Reliefs mit Bildern der Apostel aufgenietet, das Taufbecken wurde also nicht in einem Stück gegossen." The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin standing on human figures; a pronounced rim at the top; a moulding follows right below, above a running inscription in Gothic lettering with the date of the font, 1466; below the inscription is an arcade of pointed arches with busily decorated arch-heads (vegetation, crockets, little animals, etc.); in the arcade are statues of the Apostles carrying their identifying symbols: John with a chalice, Peter with the keys, Paul with the sword, Bartholomew with the flaying knife, John with the cup, etc.; some of them have lost their identifying symbols, of whom, St. James can still be identified by his pilgrim garb; the 'columns' that support the arch-heads are actually buttress-shaped and have architectural motifs on them; the basin rests on the backs of three kneeling angels, as well as a central mouldes pedestal. The font cover, suspended from the ceiling is a very ornate one; the lower part is roughly hemispherical, busily decorated with Baroque vegetal motifs; the middle part is surrounded by fluted columns and contains figures inside; the upper end is smaller version of the middle; it appears to be made of gilded and painted wood, and of much later date than the font itself.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 611048 5970485
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.87094, 10.68896
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 52′ 15.38″ N, 10° 41′ 20.26″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Notes on Measurements: [access not allowed]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German
Inscription Location: around the basin, below the upper rim
Inscription Text: ["m cccc [?]"
Inscription Notes: includes the date of the font in Roman numerals
Inscription Source: [cf. ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: Baroque?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes
Notes: wooden canopy [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870, p. 189