Albersdorf / Aluerdesdorpe

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BBL: design element - motifs - foliage or vine

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2016 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albersdorf_Taufbecken.jpg] [accessed 6 April 2018]
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Apostle or saint - St. Remigius, Bishop of Reims

probably the bishop figure wearing a mitre and holding a staff
Scene Description: probably the bishop figure wearing a mitre and holding a staff
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Apostle or saint - unidentified

three of them seen here, together with a bishop [probably St. Remigius]; the one on the left is probably Paul, the next right could be Bartholomew with his flaying knife; on the right of the bishop, perhaps John the Evangelist? at the far right are the Madonna and Child
Scene Description: three of them seen here, together with a bishop [probably St. Remigius]; the one on the left is probably Paul, the next right could be Bartholomew with his flaying knife; on the right of the bishop, perhaps John the Evangelist? at the far right are the Madonna and Child
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist

[cf. FontNotes]
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns with capitals and bases

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human figure - standing - 4

the figures appear to have a staff (?) inserted in a side bucket; is this a symbolic reference to the Four Rivers?
Scene Description: the figures appear to have a staff (?) inserted in a side bucket; is this a symbolic reference to the Four Rivers?
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view of church exterior - southeast view

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2012 by JanTappenbeck [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jt_germany_albersdorf_st_remigius_2012.JPG] [accessed 6 April 2018]
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view of font

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Image Source: scan of an engraving of a 1895 drawing by Julius Fürst, in Haas, Krumm & Stoltenberg (1896) [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Albersdorf_Taufbecken_01.jpg] [accessed 2 April 2010]
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view of font

Source caption: "Taufbecken der St.Remigius Kirche in Albersdorf, gegossen im letzten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts".
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken der St.Remigius Kirche in Albersdorf, gegossen im letzten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts".
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INFORMATION

FontID: 16292ALB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: St. Remigius Kiche
Church Patron Saints: St. Remigius of Reims [aka Remi, Rémi, Remy]
Church Location: Kapellenplatz, 25767 Albersdorf, Germany -- Tel.: +49 (4835) 214
Country Name: Germany
Location: Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein
Directions to Site: Located off (E) highway 23, ESE of Heide, in the Dithmarschen region
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1470
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church
Font Notes:
Bronze baptismal font made in 1470; it is of a common design of the period and this area: bucket-shaped basin decorated with an arcade with figures inscribed in its Gothic arches, raised on four standing figures. Noted and illustrated in 'Gotische Bronzefünten in Nordostdeutschland' [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotische_Bronzef%C3%BCnten_in_Nordostdeutschland] [accessed 2 April 2010. The illustration in this source is a 1895 drawing by Julius Fürst published in Haas, Krumm & Stoltenberg (1896). The font features scenes of the Baptism of Christ in the Jordan, St. Remigius and the Madonna and Child.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.147941, 9.282207
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 8′ 52.59″ N, 9° 16′ 55.94″ E
UTM: 32U 518433 6000019

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Haas, Hippolyt Julius, Schleswig-Holstein, meerumschlungen, in wort und bild, Kiel: Lipsius & Tischer, 1896