Hittfeld

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design element - motifs - floral, foliage and fruit

Scene Description: a band of; all upside-down

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - graded

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - vine - oak - with acorns

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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human figure - in a medallion

Scene Description: one of them may be the Annunciation to Mary

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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human figure - standing - 4

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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inscription

Scene Description: including the name of the maker and the year

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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inscription

Scene Description: notice the the anchoring point for th original font cover lock

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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scene [unidentified]

Scene Description: seen here with the five sprouting vegetal arms

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the tiny medallion with two figures, the larger medallion with a scene, the oak vine...

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Die St. Mauritiuskirche in Hittfeld. Eine Feldsteinkirche aus dem 13. Jahrhundert."

Image Source: digital scan 1 January 2008 of a photograph taken by Schizoschaf [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Mauritius_Kirche_Hittfeld.JPG] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font is visible in the chancel, right [south] side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 April 2014 by Pardim [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld-St._Mauritius3_20140403_140108.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Innen_08.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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view of font

Scene Description: notice the anchoring on the upper rim, right side, for the lock of the original font cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 May 2014 by Dirtsc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hittfeld_St._Mauritius_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 28 April 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16265HIT

Church/Chapel: Evangelisch-lutherische St. Mauritiuskirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Maurice [aka Maur, Mauritius, Moritz, Morris]

Church Location: Schillerpl. 4, 21218 Hittfeld, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4105 570931

Country Name: Germany

Location: Harburg, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located off the A1-A7 crossroads, in the municipality of Seevetal, 20 km S of Hamburg

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, S side

Date: 1438

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Lorenz Grove / Laurence Groven [aka Laurentius Semeling]

Church Notes: church built here ca. 800; became Großkirchspiel in 1004; present church 14thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzef%C3%BCnten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accessed 30 March 2010] as a Gothic bronze font made by Lorenz Grove in 1438. Baptismal font of bronze consisting of a cauldron-shaped basin decorated with an inscription below the upper rim, a band of upside-down floral, foliage and fruit motifs below; in the middle of the basin sides are four large medalions, each with a scene inscribed in it and each with five floral or foliage motifs sprouting from it; between these four motifs are tiny medallions inscribing human figures in them [one may be the Anunciation]; around the lower side of the basin is a vine of oak leaves with acorns; the base is made up of four standing youth figures set at 90-degree angles and linked at their feet in a ring lower base decorated with graded mouldings on the sides. There is no cover present, but there is handle-like anchoring at the upper rim that would have been for the lock of the original font cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.385556, 9.984444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 23′ 8″ N, 9° 59′ 4″ E

UTM: 32U 565475 5915613

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: some decorative motifs used as seprators; others are jus middle dots

Inscription Location: around the basin sides, below the upper rim

Inscription Text: "[...] laurens [...] anno - domini - m - cccc - [...]"

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]