Barth
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
Results: 24 records
UBF02: cleric?
Scene Description: to the right of the man in armour
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
UBF02: human figure - male - warrior - in armour
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
UBF04: human figure?
![missing [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: missing [cf. FontNotes]
![missing [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
UBF04: human figure?
Scene Description: missing [cf. FontNotes]
UBF05: human figure - male
![in burger's attire? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140719039_compressed.png)
Scene Description: in burger's attire? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
UBF06: human figure?
Scene Description: missing [cf. FontNotes]
UBF07: human figure - male
Scene Description: balding; bearded; an older man dressed in burger's (?) attire
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
UBF08: human figure?
Scene Description: missing [cf. FontNotes]
animal - fabulous animal or monster - head - 8
Scene Description: at the angles of the lower end of the basin; some more 'fabulous' than others
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns with capitals and bases
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140719041_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
design element - motifs - tracery
Scene Description: trefoiled arches with quatrefoils in the spandrels, inside the pointed arches -- [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
head - 8
![Human (male and female) and animal heads [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100330024_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Human (male and female) and animal heads [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schiwago, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2007 by Schiwago [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Barth_Taufbecken.jpg&filetimestamp=20070816123318] [accessed 30 March 2010]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
scenes and figures
Scene Description: Biblical scenes and figures [cf. Font notes] -- in the left arch of this image: probably the Coronation of Virging Mary in Heavens; in the centre arch: probably two Apostles, the one on the right carries a sword; Paul?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
scenes and figures
Scene Description: like those in the upper register, also framed in crocketed arches; the motif in the centre spandrel between the pair of arches is trefoiled here, wheras in the top arcade it is quatrefoiled -- the left panel here has two arch-heads: the figure is the right is Christ -- the right panel here has two crowned figures; the figure on the left holds a large flower in the left hand
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Hajotthu, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 October 2010 by Hajotthu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barth_St_Marien_2010Okt.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Marienkirche (marked A) the tallest building by far
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: excerpt from a map by Eilhard Lubinus (1565-1621) [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Lubinus_Barth.png] [accessed 19 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Photo caption: "Barth: Blick auf das Dammtor und den Turm der Marienkirche."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norbert Kaiser, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2009 by Norbert Kaiser [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barth_-_Dammtor_und_Marienkirche_(01-2).jpg] [accessed 19 July 2014
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Schiwago, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 August 2007 by Schiwago [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barth_Chor.jpg] [accessed 19 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Scene Description: the top of the font is visible on the left, by the pulpit
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Concord, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2013 by Concord [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barth_Marien_4_2013_2.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - pulpit and sounding board
Scene Description: with the basin of the font showing in the foreground
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Concord, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2013 by Concord [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barth_Marien_4_2013_20.JPG] [accessed 19 July 2014]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 14 July 2014)
INFORMATION
FontID: 16262BAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche St. Marien / Marienkirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Papenstraße 7, 18356 Barth, Germany -- Tel.: 038231-2787
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located 25 km NW of Stralsund, on the S shore of Barth Bodden
Historical Region: Prussia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1360?
Century and Period: 14th century (mid?), Gothic
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin raised on a pedestal base, also octagonal, and a number of human figures at the outer sides [only four of the figures are now left, but it appears to have had one on each side, that is, eight altogether, the other four now missing]; made of bronze entirely; the basin has two levels, both of them decorated with a complex arcade of pointed crocketed arches containing pairs of trefoliled arches with a quatrefoil in the spandrel; the arches contain a variety of Biblical figures; the upper rim of the font is decorated with human and animal heads at the angles; the angles themselves are decorated with stylised pinnacled buttresses that reach all the way down to the underbowl and end in grotesque (?) animal heads; the four remaining human figures that support the basin on the outside, in addition to the central shaft, appear to be male; one wears a coat-of-armour, one other is in clerical garb, and the other two are dressed in burger clothes; all beautifully rendered. There is no cover proper, but the font has a makeshift lid on it. This font is noted and illustrated in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzefünten_in_Nordostdeutschland_und_Polen] [accessed 30 March 2010]: "Diese Fünte ist das einzig erhaltene bronzene Taufbecken in Vorpommern. Das achteckige Becken zeigt Menschen- und Tierköpfe. In dargestellten gotischen Giebelreihen sind jeweils paarweise Apostel, Heilige und Gruppen aus biblischen Geschichten zu sehen."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.368819, 12.725067
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 22′ 07.75″ N, 12° 43′ 30.24″ E
UTM: 33U 352213 6026943
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal