Schonberg nr. Lübeck / Schönberg
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font in St. Laurentius, Schönberg (Mecklenburg)."
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font in St. Laurentius (Schönberg)"
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Scene Description: seen here repeated on the upper and lower registers of the basin
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Christ - Christ in Majesty
Scene Description: repeated sevral times around the lower register on the basin sides
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Scene Description: the inscription in the middle includes the date of the font, 1357, in Roman numerals
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Scene Description: the inscription in the middle includes the date of the font, 1357, in Roman numerals
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inscription - detail
![includes the name of the founder/caster: Gerhard Kranemann [aka Cranemann]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1250101083_compressed.png)
Scene Description: includes the name of the founder/caster: Gerhard Kranemann [aka Cranemann]
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design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - crocketed arches
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - detail
Scene Description: showing here several of the figures of Christ
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Scene Description: detail of one of the inscriptions on the font
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Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with wheel - with sword
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Baptismal font in St. Laurentius (Schönberg), detail" -- repeated several times on the font
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
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Apostle or saint - St. Lawrence - with grill in the left hand - holding a book in the riight hand
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - crocketed, cusped and pinnacled arches
Scene Description: two rows of it
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Scene Description: showing the boulder foundations used in the construction of the medieval church here
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Scene Description: showing the boulder foundations used in the construction of the medieval church here
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Laurentius church in Schönberg, Meckl. with two war memorials"
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16260SCH
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2023-06-19
Font Date: 1357
Font Century and Period/Style: 14th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Gerhard Kranemann [aka Cranemann] / heraldic font
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelisch-Lutherische Dorfkirche Schönberg / St. Laurentius [aka St. Laurentius und Katharina]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence] & St. Catherine of Alexandria
Church Notes: church documented 1235; expanded after 1324; tower added 16thC; church burned down 1601; re-built soon thereafter; tower damaged by lightning 1829; repaired 1831; restored 1987-1991;
Church Address: An d. Kirche 14, 23923 Schönberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 38828 21587
Site Location: Nordwestmecklenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road L01 [aka An d. Kirche], about 15 km E of Lübeck
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Lübeck
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of bronze cast 1357 by Gerhard Kranemann [aka Cranemann], from Lübeck. Noted in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzef%C3%BCnten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accessed 30 March 2010]. The font consists of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with two parallel arcades of crocketed trefoiled arches containing scenes, figures, symbols, etc., among which have been identified the patron saints of the church, Lawrence abd Catherine of Alexandria, the Baptism of Christ, the Crucifixion of Christ, the Instruments of the Passion and an armorial device repeated several times; there are two inscriptions on parallel bands on the sides.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 627198 5968010
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.845, 10.933417
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 50′ 42″ N, 10° 56′ 0.3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 4.5 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 86 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 95 cm*
Basin Depth: 67 cm*
Basin Total Height: 68 cm*
Height of Base: 40 cm* [each of three figures]
Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: 1) middle band / 2) lower band
Inscription Text: 1) "ISTE:FONS:FUSUG:FUIT:IN:HONOREM:BEATI:LAURENTII:ET:BEATI:KATERINE[church dedicated to these two saints]:IN:ECCLESIA:SCONENBERGHE:PONTIFICATUS:DOMINI ??PERTI:EPI:RATEBOR+ANNO:DOMINI:M:CCC:LVII"
2)"ESCANT ī[N] PACE AMEN (UNDER TWO CIRCULAR HERALDIC MOTIFS)
CAPILLINA:TUE:ERIST????TE:AC:P:MANUS:GHERHDI:DET:CRANEMAN[GERHARD CRANEMANN]:CUI
CUI: DIEREG:GENTIS:ANNO:PINO:ET:DNO:PETRO: RECTORE:CIUSISE:ECCL’E:PCCURANTE:DÑO:JOHANIIS:CAPILLANO"
Inscription Notes: HST's transcription
Inscription Source: HST (BSI)
REFERENCES
- Schulin, Bertram, Taufbecken in Deutschland: Form und Ikonographie, 2021, p. 256, 351, 460, 699; Abb. 427, 522