Bad Segeberg / Bad Seebarg
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B01: Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12 - standing
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100402002_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2007 [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/5e/Marienkirche_Segeberg_Bronzef%C3%BCnte.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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BBL01: inscription
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2007 [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/5e/Marienkirche_Segeberg_Bronzef%C3%BCnte.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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BBU01: design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a row
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Quoth, 2007
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2007 [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/5e/Marienkirche_Segeberg_Bronzef%C3%BCnte.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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BBU02: inscription
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BH01: human figure - head - 2
Scene Description: probably monk heads; may have been used as handles to secure the font cover
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LBF01: human figure - standing - with book - 4
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 13 September 2007 [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/5e/Marienkirche_Segeberg_Bronzef%C3%BCnte.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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R01: inscription
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2007 [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/5/5e/Marienkirche_Segeberg_Bronzef%C3%BCnte.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thiemo Schuff, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 April 2009 by Thiemo Schnuff [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienkirche_%28Bad_Segeberg%29] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 16287SEG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1447
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (mid), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ghert Klinghe (aka Gherd Klinghe / Gerd Klinge)
Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Bad Segerberg, Harsefeld, Groothusen and Schleswig Cathedral are all the work of Ghert Klinghe
Church / Chapel Name: Evangelish-lutheriche St. Marienkirche, Bad Segeberg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: 1160 church of the Segeberg abbey; much modified since
Church Address: Kirchpl. 5, 23795 Bad Segeberg, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4551 955255
Site Location: Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off tthe 432-206 crossroads, 25 km W of Lübeck, 50 km NE of Hamburg
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzefünten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accessed 2 April 2010]. Bronze baptismal font made by Ghert Klinghe, bronze caster/founder of the 15th century. Bucket-shaped basin with protruding flat moulding on the upper rim, on which an inscription; inscriptions also just below the rim and on the lower end of the basin sides, and, between these, a row of figures that includes the Apostles identified by inscriptions inside their haloes as well as by their symbols; raised on four standing figures, each holding a book in the left hand; rests directly on the ground. Noted and illustrated in the German Wikipedia entry for this church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marienkirche_(Bad_Segeberg)] [accessed 30 August 2025]: "Zur Ausstattung der Kirche im Spätmittelalter gehörten weiterhin die Bronzetaufe des Bremer Gießers Ghert Klinghe von 1447".
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 586037 5977308
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 53.937, 10.3106
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 53° 56′ 13.2″ N, 10° 18′ 38.16″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the upper rim, on the basin sides and inside the haloes of the figures on the basin