Braunschweig No. 2 / Brunesguik / Brunswick / Brunswiek

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animal - fish - whale? - human figure

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2006 by Ra Boe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunschweig_Magnikirche_Taufbecken_02.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2010]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2006 by Ra Boe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunschweig_Magnikirche_Taufbecken_01.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2010]

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2006 by Ra Boe [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunschweig_Magnikirche_Taufbecken_01.jpg] [accessed 9 April 2010]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: in 2006

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Igge, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 September 2006 by Igge [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunschweig_Magnikirche_Turm_1.JPG] [accessed 26 September 2014]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: ca. 1893

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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1893 by J. Schombardt; in Braunschweig’s Baudenkmäler, Serie II. Herausgegeben vom Verein von Freunden der Photographie. Erläutert von Constantin Uhde, Geheim. Hofrath und Professor an der Herzogl. techn. Hochschule zu Braunschweig., 2. Auflage, Braunschweig 1895. Gemeinsamer Verlag der Buchhandlungen Benno Goeritz und Wilhelm Danert (Bock & Co.) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunschweig_Ackerhof_Magnikirche_Uhde_(1893).jpg] [accessed 26 September 2014]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: in 2009

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Garitzko, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2009 by Garitzko [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Magni_Braunschweig.jpg] [accessed 26 September 2014]

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view of church interior - Holy Rood

Scene Description: a modern reredos; somewhat in the spirit of the medieval ones?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Brunswyk, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2006 by Brunswyk [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Braunschweig_Brunswick_Magni-Kirche_Kreuz_(2006).JPG] [accessed 26 September 2014]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover in context

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INFORMATION

FontID: 16328BRA
Church/Chapel: St. Magnikirche / Evangel. Pfarramt St. Magnikirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Magnus
Church Location: Hinter der Magnikirche 7, 38100 Braunschweig, Germany -- Tel.: (05 31) 4 68 04
Country Name: Germany
Location: Braunschweig, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: In the city centre, just S of the Staatstheater
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1468
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: similar, though not identical, to the font in St. Petrikirche, also in Braunschweig
Church Notes: original consecration deed 1031; re-built in 1252;
Bronze baptismal font similar to the one in St. Petrikirche, in the same city; it consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with mouldings at various levels, raised on a pedestal and lower base, both round and moulded; the basin is covered, but the cover has openings with cavities; decorated with human figure inside a fish's mouth, perhaps an allusion to Jonah and the whale.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.262222, 10.530278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 15′ 44″ N, 10° 31′ 49″ E
UTM: 32U 604436 5791307

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal, bronze
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]