Dresden No. 2
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image and permission received 18 March 2013
Results: 4 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 January 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received 18 March 2013
view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: the restored church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Heinz-Josef Lücking, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 October 2011 by Heinz-Josef Lücking [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hofkirche_in_Dresden.jpg] [accessed 20 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - northwest view
Scene Description: ca. 1840
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: illustration reproduced in D. Syndram, Die Rückkehr des Dresdner Schlosses, edition Sächsische Zeitung (2006: 86)
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author, C. W. Arldt, into the public domain
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Timo Sack, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 October 2006 by Timo Sack [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hofkirche_Dresden_Schiff.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
INFORMATION
Font ID: 18465DRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1751?
Font Century and Period/Style: 18th century (mid?), Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Dresden Katholische Schlosskirche [aka Kathedrale Sanctissimae Trinitatis, Kathedrale der heiligsten Dreifaltigkeit, Katholische Hofkirche]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Trinity
Church Notes: Cathedral of Holy Trinity (former Catholic Court Church), consecrated in 1751 -- damaged in the WWII Allied bombings -- restored in the mid-1980s under the DDR government
Church Address: Schloßstraße 24, 01067 Dresden, Germany -- Tel.: +49 351 31563138
Site Location: Dresden, Sachsen, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the historic centre, off the Theaterplatz, on the S bank of the Elbe river
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Dresden-Meissen
Font Notes:
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The font in Dresden Schlosskirche is probably from the same date as the building itself (1738-1751); it consists of a moulded hemispherical basin made of marble, raised on a cross-shaped base also of marble; domed metal font cover with orb-and-cross finial.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of the font of this church
COORDINATES
UTM: 33U 411515 5656545
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 51.053611, 13.7375
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 51° 3′ 13″ N, 13° 44′ 15″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: metal
Material: brass
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]