Wiesenburg / Wiesenburg/Mark

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
design element - motifs - moulding - 2
view of church exterior - south view
view of church exterior in context - southwest view
view of font and cover
view of font and cover in context
view of font cover
INFORMATION
FontID: 18532WIE
Church/Chapel: Evangelische Kirche St. Marien / Burgwardskirche
Church Location: Wiesenburg, 14827 Wiesenburg/Mark, Germany
Country Name: Germany
Location: Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg
Directions to Site: Located off the Bd107-Bd406 crossroads, 11 km W of Bad Belzig, 45 km SW of Brandenburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1400?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefrul to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: 12th-13thC church; modified 16th, 17th, 18th and tower added late-19thC; renovated 1958-1959
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Baptismal font consisting of an octagonal basin with tapering rounded underbowl, decorated with a low-relief pattern of floral and foliage motifs; raised of a moulded octagonal pedestal base. Metal cover of conical shape with a crossed Rho as finial [not the more common Chi-Rho symbol]. The [www.ev-kirchengemeinde-wiesenburg.de/kirchen.htm] [accessed 18 July 2013] site gives the date of the sandstone font as ca. 1400 and the capacity of the basin as seventy liters; the cover is dated 1958, made by Hoess, a local coppersmith [NB: this information is given also in the German Wikipedia entry for the church [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Marien_(Wiesenburg)] [accessed 1 November 2023]].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
52.111,
12.4543
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
52° 6′ 39.6″ N,
12° 27′ 15.48″ E
UTM: 33U 325683 5776441
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, sandstone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Notes on Measurements: [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1958
Material:
metal,
copper
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]