Molln No. 2 / Mölln

Results: 51 records

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Apostle or saint - St. Anne, mother of the Virgin Mary

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - St. Christopher and Christ-child

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Apostle or saint - St. Maurice

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

Apostle or saint - St. Nicholas

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

coat of arms - Lübeck

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

coat of arms - Mölln

Scene Description: a/p identification in the printed church guide [cf. FontNotes]

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases - patterned columns

Scene Description: torsade columns

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: two bands of

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2

Scene Description: with an inscription between them

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 3

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: appears to be part or behind the arch-heads

design element - motifs and/or symbols - varied

a variety of motifs are used in the inscription as separators; some ar vegetal (floral or foliage), but at least one, seen here after "Ano" appears to be a fish (?)

Scene Description: a variety of motifs are used in the inscription as separators; some ar vegetal (floral or foliage), but at least one, seen here after "Ano" appears to be a fish (?)

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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human figure - kneeling - holding object - 3

Scene Description: this one carries a chrismon vase

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

information

Image Source: Field notes taken on site by BSI

inscription

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: showing the metal support for the baptismal dish, and the metal insert

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery chapel - painting

the painting is dated 1583 and includes on the left panel a baptismal scene using a bronze font, although the rendering makes it look quite different from the one in this church

Scene Description: the painting is dated 1583 and includes on the left panel a baptismal scene using a bronze font, although the rendering makes it look quite different from the one in this church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery chapel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery chapel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - baptistery chapel - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: showing the font base used as candle holder on the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail - hanging wooden lamp for candles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail - hanging wooden lamp for candles

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail - pulpit

Scene Description: showing on the left [north] wall some of the mural paintings

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - detail - pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: showing the baptistery chapel to the right [south] of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - Crowning of Virgin Mary by Christ - St. Michael weighing souls - St. Medard calming the sea - fishing ship

Scene Description: the restored late-medieval mural paintings on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - St. Medard blessing ship and fishermen - St. James blessing pilgrims

Scene Description: the restored late-medieval mural paintings on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - fishing ship in stormy sea - St Michael weighing souls

Scene Description: the restored late-medieval mural paintings on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north wall - painting - detail - pilgrims - St. James blessing pilgrims

Scene Description: the restored late-medieval mural paintings on the north wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - object

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - bell ringer - drinking

Scene Description: dexterous bell-ringers depicted on the west face of the south pillar of the chancel arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail - monk holding book - St. Francis?

Scene Description: a Franciscan bishop?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken in St. Nicolai in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, gegossen 1509 von Peter Wulf".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 May 2017 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mölln_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 May 2023 by BSI

view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16298MOL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Ev.-Luth. St. Nicolai-Kirche

Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra

Church Location: Am Markt 10, 23879 Mölln, Germany -- Tel.: +49 4542 3482

Country Name: Germany

Location: Schleswig-Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein

Directions to Site: Located at the L202-L218 crossroads, E of the 207 [aka Bundestrasse], S of Lübeck, ENE of Hamburg. The church is high above the historical centre of town, between the Hauptstrasse and the water

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel

Date: 1509

Century and Period: 16th century (early), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Peter Wulf from Lübeck / heraldic font

Cognate Fonts: Eutin [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the churchwarden for her help for the access to document this font

Font Notes: Click to view

Noted and illustrated in Reinhold Spichal's Waren mittelalterliche Bronzetaufbecken auch verkörperte Raummaße? [www.eichamt.bremen.de/aufgaben/historisches/bronzetaufbecken-1628] [accessed 22 May 2017]: "In der St.-Nicolai-Kirche zu Mölln wird das Taufbecken von 1509 (171 Liter) mit einem Gitter aus geschmiedeten, durchgesteckten Eisenstäben innerhalb eines hölzernen Rahmens umschlossen. Der Zugang wird durch eine kleine Pforte ermöglicht." Riechert (2014) gives the decorative elements and identifies the figures: "Der breite Rand wölbt sich nach innen. Die Außenseite wird innerhalb zweier Profile von einer Umschrift umzogen, mit zweimal dem Lübecker Stadtwappen. Unter acht Arkadenbögen befinden sich Heiligenfiguren: Mauritius, Johannes d. T, Madonna auf der Mondsichel, Nikolaus, Katharina, Christophorus, Anna Selbdritt, und das Möllner Stadtwappen, ein Mühlenrad. Zwei Profilbänder mit Kreuzblumen bilden den Abschluss." Riechert further gives the full text of the inscription [cf. InscriptionArea] and gives the font at Eutin as rekated/cognate. On-site notes: the basin is of the characteristic bucket-shape that bell-makers used for these bronze fonts, and rests on four kneeling figures [angels? clerics?], carrying objects (one carries a chrismon container, another appears to have lost his object); the upper lip moulding has a running inscription which includes the name of the maker, Peter Wulf, and the date of the font 1509 [is there a 'C' after the 'D' in the date?]; on the sides of the basin is an arcade of round, almost flat, arches on very slender torsade columns with capitals and bases; in the arches are a number of figures and symbols identified in the local printed guide as follows: St. Catherine, St. Christopher, St. Anne, St. Mauritius, St. John the Baptist, Madonna and Child, St. Nicholas; our own list of the figures starting on the northeast side and reading L-->R: Madonna and Child with third figure holding object --> knight --> Apostle? or possibly John the Baptist holding a lamb? --> Madonna and Child --> bishop --> shields with coat of arms [cf. infra] ---> female figure crowned and with sword, possibly St Margaret? --> St. Christopher; also on the sides are the Lübeck and Mölln coats-of-arms; the lower end of the basin and underbowl are decorated with pattern ornamentation. The conical cover, also of bronze, is raised and lowered via a counterweight system. The font was made in 1509 by Peter Wulf of Lübeck The font is located in a round enclosure of wood and metal, with a gate that opens for access.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.630619, 10.691908

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 37′ 50.23″ N, 10° 41′ 30.87″ E

UTM: 32U 611878 5943756

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: metal basin insert 32 cm deep

Rim Thickness: 5.5-6 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 71 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 85 cm*

Basin Depth: 57 cm* [insert is 32 cm* deep]

Basin Total Height: 56 cm*

Height of Base: 55-52 cm* [tallest to shortest figure height]

Font Height (less Plinth): 103 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: there appears to be a 'C' after the 'D' in the date

Inscription Location: around the upper basin side, below the lip moulding

Inscription Text: 1) "ANO DNI M VC IX DOTETEN DEKERK (lüb. Wappen) SVAREN TOMOLLEN GETEN DESSE DOPE DETO DERTID KERCK SVAREN WEREN (lüb. Wappen) IK MESTER PETER WULF" [Umschriften um den Kessel in gotischen Minuskeln] 2) "[...] peter - wulf - An[n]o - d[o]m[ini] - m - d[c?] - ix - [...]"

Inscription Source: 1) Haupt Ergänzungsheft 1890, S. 120 [in Dissertation_Riechert_Taufbecken_Nordelbien-4.pdf] [accessed 7 January 2025] 2) BSI partial reading

LID INFORMATION

Date: 16th century?

Material: metal, bronze

Apparatus: yes; counterweight system

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Riechert, Kirsten, Taufbecken in Nordelbien: zwischen 1500 und 1914, ISBN 78-3898767262, Husum, 2015