Fehmarn No. 2 / Borch up Vemere / Borg up Fehmarn / Burg auf Fehmarn / Burghæby / Burgk uff Femern / Femern

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B01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 April 2009 by Peter Jirjahlke [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:StNikolai-Bronzetaufe.jpg&filetimestamp=20090428173432] [accessed 28 March 2010]

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B02: Apostle, prophet or saint - unidentified

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B03: Apostle, prophet or saint - unidentified

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B04: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding his right hand on Christ's head

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B05: Apostle, prophet or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: unlike the others, this figure looks younger and has no facial hair

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B06: Apostle, prophet or saint - unidentified

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B07: design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - 6

Scene Description: one on each side of the hexagonal basin; each containing a scene or figure

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B08: design element - architectural - buttress - crocketed pinnacle - 6

Scene Description: at the angles of the basin

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LB01: animal - mammal - lion - couchant - 3

Scene Description: one of three

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LID01: symbol - sun - multi-rayed

Scene Description: on the font cover top [notice the inscription running on the upper rim]

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R01: inscription - part 1

Scene Description: one of six

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R02: inscription - part 2

Scene Description: one of six

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R03: inscription - part 3

Scene Description: one of six

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R04: inscription - part 4

Scene Description: one of six

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R05: inscription - part 5

Scene Description: one of six

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R06: inscription - part 6

Scene Description: one of six

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view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burg_StNicolai_v_S.JPG] [accessed 4 March 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 August 2010 by Beckstet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burg_StNicolai_n_O.JPG] [accessed 4 March 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 September 2017 by Hans-Jörg Gemeinholzer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Burg_auf_Fehmarn_St._Nikolai_Orgel_(6).jpg] [accessed 4 March 2018]

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view of font and cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16248FEH

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische Hallenkirche St. Nikolai

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Breite Str. 47, 23769 Burg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4371 2250

Country Name: Germany

Location: Ostholstein, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: The island of Fehmarn [Femern in Danish] is located 18 km S of Lolland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1391

Century and Period: 14th century (late), Gothic

Cognate Fonts: the font at Burg bei Magdeburg

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Wentzel (1938), who transcribes the inscription on this bronze font: "Anno millesimo tricento nonageno prirao non pleno fonterii dedit hunc michi beno korp episcopus arosiensis." Wentzel (ibid.) identifies Korp as "Beno Henrici Korp [...] 1384 wurde er Bischof von Västerås". One of two fonts in this church [cf. Index entry for Fehmarn No. 2 for the earlier stone font in this church]. The font consists of a hexagonal basin decorated with stylised Gothic arches inscrbing figures: the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan on one side; on the opposite side is Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus; on the other four sides are four standing male figures, three of which are older and wearing beards, while one is younger and has no facial hair; the figures, who are probably apostles, prophets or saints, may have been distinguishable originally by the ojects they held in the hands, but they all appear to have been broken off; at the angles of the basin as stylised buttresses with crocketed pinnacles; on the upper rim of the font is a Latin inscription that records the date [1391] in which the bishop of Arosia donated the font [cf. Inscription area]; the font cover is also of the same material and date, and is decorated with a radiating sun' the pedestal base is hexagonal and moulded, and stands on three resting lions. Noted and illustrated in the Parish website [http://st-nikolai-kirche-burg.de] [accessed 28 March 2010]: "Das sechseckige gotische Bronzetaufbecken aus dem Jahr 1391 ist von lübscher Herkunft und wird dem Apengeter-Kreis zugeordnet. Unter welchen Umständen das Taufbecken nach Burg kam, konnte bislang nicht ganz geklärt werden. Der Text auf dem Rand heißt übersetzt: "Im Jahre 1391 gab mir diese Taufe Benno Korp, Bischof von Arosia". The Wikipedia article 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzef%C3%BCnten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accesswed 28 March 2010] notes on this font: "Lateinische Inschrift anno milleno tricenteno nonageno primo non pleno fontem dedit hunc michi beno korp episcopus arosiensis. Frei übersetzt Im Jahre 1391 (nicht voll) gab mir diese Taufe Beno Korp, Bischof von Arosia. Das sechseckige gotische Bronzetaufbecken in Kelchform ist von lübscher Herkunft und wird dem Apengeter-Kreis zugerechnet. Das Fassungsvermögen beträgt etwa 195 Liter (3 Ohm). Durch welche Umstände das Taufbecken nach Fehmarn kam, ist bis heute nicht ganz geklärt.[3] Bei dem Bischof von Arosia handelte es sich um Bono Korp, der um 1391 Bischof von Västerås war. Der Ort wurde in der Wikingerzeit als Handelsplatz unter dem Namen Aros gegründet. Eine Kopie (Abguss) befindet sich seit 1955 im Dom zu Västerås als dem ursprünglichen Bestimmungsort."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.438611, 11.1975

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 26′ 19″ N, 11° 11′ 51″ E

UTM: 32U 642515 6034547

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: hexagonal (mounted)

Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: transl.: "Beno Korp, bishop of Arosia, gave this font in the year 1391"

Inscription Location: on the upper rim

Inscription Text: "anno milleno tricenteno nonageno primo non pleno fontem dedit hunc michi beno korp episcopus arosiensis"

LID INFORMATION

Date: 1391

Material: metal, bronze

Apparatus: no

Notes: the flat hexagonal bronze lid dates, like the font, from 1391; it bears the Latin inscription on the top outer sides

REFERENCES

Wentzel, Hans, "Das Taufbecken des Beno Korp und einige verwandte Skulpturen in Schweden und Norddeutschland", (1938), Fornvännen. Tidskrift for Svensk Antikvarisk Forskning, 1938, pp. 129-153; r["References"]