Schleswig / Slesvig

Results: 47 records

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BBU01: inscription

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12

Scene Description: each under a gilded arch

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Matthias - holding ax and book

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist

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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child - Virgin crowned

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angel - holding object - standing on a pillar

Scene Description: many of them all around the basin, in lieue of the supporting columns of the arcade -- each angel holds a different object, the two seen here hold musical instruments

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design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arch-heads - foliated arches

Scene Description: some of them supported by standing figures of angels

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human figure - bust or semi-figure

Scene Description: all around, in the spaces between the parts of the inscription

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human figure - child - head

Scene Description: originally part of the locking mechanismo of the font cover

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human figure - head

Scene Description: one of two set at the upper rim as parts of the locking system of the original font cover -- the square hole through which the locking bar would go is discernible hwre on the forehead

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human figure - putto - 4

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

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information

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information

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inscription - detail

Scene Description: with the date in Roman numerals

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symbol - emblem - crossed swords

Scene Description: showing three of them in this image

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail

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view of basin - detail - Crucifixion scene, Saints Paul, John, Bartholomew

Scene Description: each figure identified by a symbol or attribute

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view of basin - detail - Saints Andrew, Peter

Scene Description: to the left of the Crucifixion scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2023 by BSI

view of basin - north side - detail - Saints Andrew, Peter, Crucifixion scene with May and John, Paul

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view of basin - upper view

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view of church exterior - south portal

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - detail

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view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

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view of church exterior - tower

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view of church exterior - tower - detail

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view of church in - altar and retable

Scene Description: showing the main altar, the 16thC "Bordesholmer Altar" by Hans Brüggemann

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 June 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - aisle

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view of church interior - baldaquin - Adoration of the Magi

Scene Description: Dreikönigs-Gruppe im Dom: French, early-Gothic (ca. 1300)

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view of church interior - ceiling - painting - detail

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view of church interior - ceiling - painting - detail

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view of church interior - ceiling - painting - detail

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view of church interior - door

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view of church interior - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of church interior - reredos

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font

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view of font - north side

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view of font - southwest side

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view of font in context - northwest side

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view of font in context - southwest side

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16289SCH

Church/Chapel: St. Petri-Dom zu Schleswig / Schleswiger Dom / Slesvig Domkirke

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Norderdomstraße 4, 248 37 Schleswig, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4621 989857

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located just E of Authobahn 7, about 25 km WNW of Eckenforde

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Schleswig

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

Date: 1480

Century and Period: 15th century (late) [base figures added in 1666?] [composite font?], Gothic [altered]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Ghert or Hinrich 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

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the cathedral Pastorin and staff for providing us with full access to the cordoned off areas of the interior to document the baptismal font and its surroundings duting our May 2023 visit

Church Notes: original misionary church founded in Haithabu (Hedeby) ca. 850; first cathedral built ca. 947; Romanesque building 1134-1200; modified ca. 1300, 14th, 15th, 16th and 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzefünten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accessed 3 April 2010] and in Mittelalterliche Bronzefünten des niederdeutschen Kulturraums [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelalterliche_Bronzefünten_des_niederdeutschen_Kulturraums] [accessed 1 January 2025]: Bronze baptismal font attributed to Ghert or Hinrich Klinghe, bronze caster/founder of the 15th century, in 1480; although the font is not signed, the attribution is made on the strength of its similarity to the font at Pellwormer, among others. The present font consists of a bronze basin, round, with tapering sides, raised on a round moulded central support and four putto figures naked but for a small charged shield hanging from their shoulders; like many of the fonts of this type, it has two pronounced protrussions in the shape of human heads at opposite ends of the upper rim, surely part of the locking mechanism for the original font cover. The ptti that support the font were added in 1666. [NB: the Romanesque portal of this cathedral dates of ca. 1180, but we have no information on an earlier font here

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.513333, 9.569167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 30′ 48″ N, 9° 34′ 9″ E

UTM: 32U 536848 6040787

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 1 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 95.5 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 98 cm*

Basin Total Height: 54 cm*

Height of Base: 46 cm* [replacement figs. 60 cm*]

Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: German and Latin

Inscription Notes: includes the date of the font in Roman numerals

Inscription Location: around the upper and lower sides of the basin

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]