Lubeck No. 4 / Lübeck

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12 - standing

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

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

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - wearing pilgrim garb

Scene Description: staff missing

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - wearing pilgrim garb - detail

Scene Description: the staf is missing from his left hand

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist - holding goblet

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul and St. Bartholomew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter and St. Paul

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Scene Description: lost its attribute/symbol

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

angel - kneeling - 3

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns

Scene Description: The 'columns' are decorated buttresses.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

inscription - partial

Scene Description: includes the date of the font, 1466, in Roman numerals

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: showing here Peter and Paul

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context - north view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lübeck, Schuppen 9 am Lübecker Hafen vor dem Burgkloster und St. Jakobi".

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-DE

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: the Brömbse-Altar / Broemsenaltar: two sets of panels can be closed separately showing different scenes

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: with the font and cover on the left

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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view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - railing - detail

Scene Description: part of the railing that encloses the baptismal font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - railing - detail

Scene Description: part of the railing that encloses the baptismal font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

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"

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"

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]

Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-Art (PD-old-100)

view of font and cover in context

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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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

view of font cover - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 14559LUB

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: St. Jakobi Kirche / Jakobikirche

Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]

Church Location: Jakobikirchhof 3, 23552 Lübeck, Germany -- Tel.: +49 451 308010

Country Name: Germany

Location: Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: The church is located in Lübeck's Innenstadt, at the corner of Jakobikirchhof and Breite Str.

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in its own raised enclosure

Date: 1466

Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Klaus Grude

Church Notes: pre-1227 Romanesque church destroyed in 1276 fire; re-built church consecrated 1334 as "Kirche der Seefahrer und Fischer"

Font Notes: Click to view

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.87094, 10.68896

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 52′ 15.38″ N, 10° 41′ 20.26″ E

UTM: 32U 611048 5970485

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 Notes: includes the date of the font in Roman numerals

Inscription Location: around the basin, below the upper rim

Inscription Text: ["m cccc [?]"

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