Spandau in Berlin / Spandow
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
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Apostle or saint - unidentified
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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist
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angel - 12
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design element - motifs and symbols - varied
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human figure - male - standing - holding book and other object
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human figure - male - standing - holding book and other object
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view of church exterior - southwest end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Petrus Silesius, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2008 by PetrusSilesius [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Nikolai-Kirche_%28Spandau%29] [accessed 19 May 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PetrusS ilesius, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2008 by PetrusSilesius [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spandau_Nikolaikirche_Hauptschiff.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Petrus Silesius, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2008 by PetrusSilesius [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spandau_Nikolaikirche_Orgel.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
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view of church interior - sculpture
Scene Description: Crucifixion group
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Petrus Silesius, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 September 2008 by PetrusSilesius [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spandau_Nikolaikirche_Kreuz.jpg] [accessed 19 May 2013]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry C. Suchland, 1986
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Harry C. Suchland in Alte Kirchen in Berlin (Berlin: Wichern Verlag, 2nd edition, 1986)
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view of font and cover
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view of font and cover
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Harry C. Suchland, 1986
Image Source: digital image of a photograph by Harry C. Suchland in Alte Kirchen in Berlin (Berlin: Wichern Verlag, 2nd edition, 1986)
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view of inscription - detail
Scene Description: this part includes the date 1398
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INFORMATION
FontID: 18467SPA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Pfarrkirche St. Nikolai
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Reformationsplatz 12 / Carl-Schurz-Straße, 13597 Berlin, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Berlin, Berlin
Directions to Site: Located in Altstadt Spandau, about 10 km WNW of Berlin city centre
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, left of the choir
Date: ca. 1398?
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of and information on this font
Church Notes: church built in 1404 on the site of a 1240 earlier church ['ecclesia forensis']
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted and illustrated in Harry C. Suchland's Alte Kirchen in Berlin (Berlin: Wichern Verlag, 2nd edition, 1986). Baptismal font made of bronze, located to the left of the choir; it consists of a bucket-shaped basin decorated with two bands of tiny figures all around; above, below the rim, a Gothic-miniscule lettering inscription with the date 1398; in the centre is a series of figures that are repeated all around; they include a Crucifixion scene with Mary and John, and various unidentified figures that probably stand for the Apostles; below those are more tiny figures similar to the ones above, except for the Crucifixion scene; the basin is raised on four hieratic figures, apparently male, some bearded, some not, each one holding a book and an unidentified object that is missing from some of the figures; the four figures stand on a round-to-octagonal platform that is decorated with tiny carvings (figures, crosses, animals, etc.) The bronze lid or plate is said to have been added in 1839, and is decorated with twelve angels all around, each in its own quadrangular partition.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.53837, 13.2053
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52 ° 32 '18:13'' N, 13 ° 12 '19:08'' E
UTM: 33U 378282 5822433
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: around the basin sides, below the upper rim of the basin
Inscription Text: [Latin text not available] [=im Jahr des Herrn 1398 am Fest der Geburt der glorreichen Jungfrau Maria] / [=in the year of Our Lord 1398, on the festivity of the birth of St. Mary [i.e., 8 September]]
Inscription Source: German translation source [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Nikolai-Kirche_%28Spandau%29] [accessed 19 May 2013]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1839
Material: metal, bronze
Apparatus: no
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