Berlin No. 4

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Image and permission received
Results: 7 records
New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ and Nicodemus
New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan
inscription
view of church exterior - northeast view
view of church exterior - west view
view of font in context - east side
INFORMATION
FontID: 18425BER
Church/Chapel: Nikolaikirche [now Stadtmuseum Berlin]
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Nikolaikirchplatz, 10178 Berlin -- Tel.: +49 30 24002162
Country Name: Germany
Location: Berlin, Berlin
Directions to Site: Located in the the Nikolaiviertel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1563
Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Stephan Hahn and Paul Hermann
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this font
Church Notes: original church built between 1220 and 1230; much damaged in WWII; restored; redundant and now used as museum and concert hall
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described and illustrated in Rossa (2010): the baptismal font of St. Nicholas Church dates from 1563 and was made of tin plate on a wooden frame by Saxon tinsmith Stephan Hahn and his assistant Paul Hermann. The basin has a protruding octagonal upper rim, moulded and with an inscription; the basin proper is octagonal and rounded at the unbderbowl, the sides with large medallions, of which only two originals have survived: one depicts Christ's baptism in the Jordan; the other shows Christ and Nicodemus in conversation; the inscriptions are baptism-related. Badly damaged in 1939, it was restored and is now located at the west end of the nave.
An entry for Dorfkirche Tempelhof in Wikipedia [https://wiki.edu.vn/wiki43/2021/12/06/dorfkirche-tempelhof-wikipedia/] [accessed 20 March 2022] notes: "Der massive romanische Taufstein befindet sich seit 1877 im Märkischen Museum (heute in der zur Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin gehörenden Nikolaikirche). "
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.516804,
13.407547
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 31′ 0.49″ N,
13° 24′ 27.17″ E
UTM: 33U 391944 5819713
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
metal, tin
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: [cf. FontNotes]