Dresden No. 3

Main image for Dresden No. 3

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013

Image and permission received 28 March 2013

Results: 4 records

view of church exterior - frieze

Totentanz (Danse macabre) frieze created by Christoph Walther (the first) in 1534; originally on the third floor of the facade in Gorgentores; found and restored in 1990, it was installed inside the restored Dreikönigskirche
Scene Description: Totentanz (Danse macabre) frieze created by Christoph Walther (the first) in 1534; originally on the third floor of the facade in Gorgentores; found and restored in 1990, it was installed inside the restored Dreikönigskirche
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kolossos, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 July 2007 by Kolossos [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dresden-Totentanz.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kolossos, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 Match 2008 by Kolossos [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dresden-Dreikoenigskirche.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Albertplatz in the foreground; Hauptstrasse diagonally through the centre; Dreikönigskirche at the back, right side; ca.1905
Scene Description: Albertplatz in the foreground; Hauptstrasse diagonally through the centre; Dreikönigskirche at the back, right side; ca.1905
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: B&W photograph ca.1905 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dresden-albertplatz1905.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font

the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Scene Description: the modern font [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 January 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received 28 March 2013

INFORMATION

FontID: 18466DRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Dresden Neustadt Dreikönigskirche
Church Patron Saints: Three Kings
Country Name: Germany
Location: Dresden, Sachsen
Date: ca. 1404?
Century and Period: 15th century (early?), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photograph of the modern font here
Church Notes: original church probably from ca. 1404; destroyed in 1429; re-built ca. 1500; destroyed by fire in 1685; re-built ca. 1690; demolished 1731-1732; re-built and consecrated in 1739; burned down in the Allied bombings of 1945; re-built and re-dedicated in 1990-1991
Font Notes:
The original church of 1404 here was destroyed in 1429; it was re-built and destroyed again three times until its re-building of 1991. The present font is modern, an octagonal basin with a rounded underbowl, raised on a baluster-type rounded pedestal base; all of it in a dark bluish marble. [NB: we have no information on its earlier fonts here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.061031, 13.742969
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 3′ 39.71″ N, 13° 44′ 34.69″ E
UTM: 33U 411912 5657363